use Net::Whois::RIPE::Object;


 $object = new Net::Whois::RIPE::Object;
 $object->debug(1);


 while ($line = $whois_socket->get()) {
     ($attribute,$value) = ($line =~ /^(.+?):\s+(.+)$/);
     next unless $attribute;
     $object->add($attribute,$value);
 }

 $object->success || die;

 foreach $attribute ($object->attributes()) {
     foreach $value ($object->$attribute()) {
         printf "%s:    %-s\n", $attribute, $value;
     }
 }

 print $object->content; # raw content from whois server

Name "main::whois_socket" used only once: possible typo at ./whois.pl line 9.
expecting a handle at ./whois.pl line 5
Can't call method "debug" on an undefined value at ./whois.pl line 6.

use strict;