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mindsport has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Was not too sure of how to word my question to search it on google but I wrote a little irc client to connect to irc and join a channel and while its in the channel I want it to read a website and post new updates to the channel but the while loop for the socket only is active when the server is sending information to it.. how can I have just a while loop for processing the webpage at a certain time and also one to read the incoming data from the server? Thanks!