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Perl functions A-Z | Perl functions by category | The 'perlfunc' manpage

- send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO

- send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS

  Sends a message on a socket. Attempts to send the scalar MSG to the SOCKET filehandle. Takes the same flags as the system call of the same name. On unconnected sockets, you must specify a destination to send to, in which case it does a sendto(2) syscall. Returns the number of characters sent, or the undefined value on error. The sendmsg(2) syscall is currently unimplemented. See UDP: Message Passing in perlipc for examples.

  Note the characters: depending on the status of the socket, either (8-bit) bytes or characters are sent. By default all sockets operate on bytes, but for example if the socket has been changed using binmode() to operate with the `:encoding(utf8)` I/O layer (see open, or the `open` pragma, open), the I/O will operate on UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters, not bytes. Similarly for the `:encoding` pragma: in that case pretty much any characters can be sent.