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socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL

Opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it to filehandle SOCKET. DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified the same as for the system call of the same name. You should ``use Socket;'' first to get the proper definitions imported. See the example in Sockets: Client/Server Communication.

Source: Perl builtin functions
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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