[ale] String -> Number

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

Is there a formal method of converting a string to a number?  I'm
reading a line from a socket that is really a number.  I'm passing that
var as an argument to IO::Socket::INET but it fails connection.  By 

This works


#strip line terminateor off
    chomp($line);
    $SPORT = $line;

    close($sock);

    if($VERBOSE == 1) {
        print (STDOUT "Connecting to secondary server on port ", $SPORT,
"\n");
    }

    my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
                                     PeerAddr => $SERVER,
                                     PeerPort => 783,
                                     Proto => 'tcp',
                                     );
    die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;

This does not
    my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
                                     PeerAddr => $SERVER,
                                     PeerPort => $SPORT,
                                     Proto => 'tcp',
                                     );
    die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;

I'm trying to write a portable logging program that will log output
received to a file.

Thanks,
Chris



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