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in reply to Re^2: Undefined Subroutine & Global symbol requires explicit package name
in thread Undefined Subroutine & Global symbol requires explicit package name

You didn't really understand the first answer you got on the issue: "where did you find inet_aton documented?".

When you call a subroutine, it must be defined somewhere, unless it is a builtin Perl function, like "each" and "print" in your example. In your code, you want to use functions from the module "Socket.pm" - so you have to "use Socket" to make these functions available.

You can tell that inet_aton is not a Perl function simply by checking with man perlfunc or by trying

perldoc -f inet_aton

Of course, if you misspell a function you'll get the same error, but this is not the issue here.

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