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# Sockets

Will fail with a connect error if there is not a socket server of some kind available on the specified host and port.

```perl
my $host = '127.0.0.1';
my $port = 256;

my $client = IO::Socket::INET.new(:$host, :$port);
$client.print( 'hello socket world' );
$client.close;
```