Perl: IRC Notice Printing - perl

Question

Having a few issues with the below code..
my $file=File::Tail->new("/var/log/messages");
while (defined(my $line=$file->read)) {
print $sock "NOTICE #logs $line";
}
As you can see I'm tailing the servers message logs (which works) and printing it into an IRC socket as a NOTICE, but for some reason it's only printing out the first word of each line into the channel - for example, it's only printing out 'Jan' as that's the month.
Can anyone help with this?
[06:55:48] IRCBOT (~IRCBOT#10.1.0.4) joined the channel.
[06:56:00] -IRCBOT- Jan
[06:56:00] -IRCBOT- Jan
[06:56:00] -IRCBOT- Jan
[06:56:00] -IRCBOT- Jan
[06:56:00] -IRCBOT- Jan
[06:56:02] -IRCBOT- Jan
Many Thanks in Advance!
EDIT: Just in case it matters, this is how I'm connecting to the IRC server..
use IO::Socket;
use File::Tail;
my $file=File::Tail->new("/var/log/messages");
my $server = "irc.example.co.uk";
my $nick = "IRCBOT";
my $login = "IRCBOT";
my $channel = "#logs";
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(PeerAddr => $server,
PeerPort => 6667,
Proto => 'tcp') or
die "Can't connect\n";

Answer 1

You need to prefix the text string with a : character,
print $sock "NOTICE #logs :$line";
If you want to escape the "$line", you can do something like:
print $sock "NOTICE #logs :\x01$line\x01";
By default, the IRC protocol separates parameters by spaces, you need to include the leading semicolon before a text string to indicate it is the trailing parameter and should not be separated.
NOTICE #logs Jan 1st 2014
is treated as a command plus 4 parameters,
NOTICE #logs :Jan 1st 2014 ... more stuff ... long line
is treated as a command plus one parameter that extends to CR LF (possibly including trailing whitespace)