Perl Programming/Keywords/socket
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The socket keyword
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
socket SOCKET, DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL
Examples
use Socket;
$proto = getprotobyname("tcp");
socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";