Perl Programming/Keywords/socket

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The socket keyword

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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

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  socket SOCKET, DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL

Examples

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use Socket;

$proto = getprotobyname("tcp");

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

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