Hi, I have made a socket that connects to a remote server and listens for incoming data, it writes the data to a file. The data stream is continuous, any breaks in the stream are not based an any pattern. The code works mostly, except that a new file is never created. I would like a new file to be created every 15 minutes. I realize this is because an EOF is never reached from the socket, and the socket is blocking the code from moving forward. I am not sure making the socket non-blocking will get me what I want, as there will almost always be data in the buffer to be read. Is there a way to get the desired behavior? I was considering either trying to use Fork in some way, or making a seperate script to handle to file seperation with the current script writing to generic file. Thanks, Eric

while($continue){
        if ($socket->connected){
                $quarter = $minute - ($minute % 15);
                ## if quarter != quarter 15 minutes has passed, create
+ new filename with the next 0 15 30 45 designation
                if($cur_quarter != $quarter){
                        ## close current file and move it to directory
+ for further processing
                        close $fout;
                        move("$dir.$filename","/home/ed/falbee/chrysle
+r_asn/lu62asns");
                        $cur_quarter = $quarter;
                        ## pad cur_quarter with 0 (make sure has two d
+igits)
                        $cur_quarter .= '0' x (2 - length($cur_quarter
+));
                        $filename ="$date$cur_quarter";
                        open ($fout, ">>", $filename);
                }
                local $/ = '^\';
                my $line = <$socket>;
                print $fout $line;
        }
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