[Chapter 3] 3.2.151 socket
Author: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 1999-07-02T01:54:13Z

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| Chapter 3 Functions |

### 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.

3.2.150 sleep |  | 3.2.152 socketpair