3.2.151 socket

socket SOCKET, DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL

This function opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it to filehandle SOCKET. DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified the same as for socket(2). Before using this function, your program should contain the line:

use Socket;

This gives you the proper constants. The function returns true if successful. See the examples in the section "Sockets" in Chapter 6.