How do I perform network programming with Perl

Network programming with Perl allows you to create scripts that can communicate over a network using sockets. Perl’s built-in support for networking makes it an excellent choice for developing network applications. Below is a simple example of a TCP client and server implemented in Perl.

# TCP Server Example use IO::Socket::INET; # Creating a listening socket my $server_socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalAddr => '127.0.0.1', LocalPort => 5000, Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 5, Reuse => 1 ) or die "Cannot create socket: $!\n"; print "Server waiting for client connection...\n"; while (my $client_socket = $server_socket->accept()) { print "Client connected from: ", $client_socket->peerhost(), "\n"; print $client_socket "Hello from server!\n"; close($client_socket); } close($server_socket);
# TCP Client Example use IO::Socket::INET; # Creating a socket to connect to the server my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1', PeerPort => 5000, Proto => 'tcp' ) or die "Cannot connect to server: $!\n"; my $response = <$socket>; print "Received from server: $response"; close($socket);

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