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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

seek

Synopsis

$fh->seek(offset, whence)

Frontend for the corresponding built-in seek function, which sets a filehandle’s position in the file. Takes the following arguments:

offset

The offset where you want to set the position.

whence

The position in the file that the offset is relative to. Possible values are: 0 for the beginning of the file, 1 for the current position, or 2 for end of file. May also be expressed as the following constants, which are exported:

SEEK_SET

Beginning of file

SEEK_CUR

Current position

SEEK_END

End of file

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