[ale] String -> Number

[dchambers at bugfixer.net (Denny Chambers)]

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Christopher Fowler wrote:

>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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