Perl Programming/Keywords/socket

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The socket keyword edit

The socket function opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it to filehandle SOCKET. The DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified in the same way as for syscall.

Syntax edit

  socket SOCKET, DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL

Examples edit

use Socket;

$proto = getprotobyname("tcp");

socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";

Examples edit

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