Re: can some elaborate the difference between sysread/read sysseek/seek

Have never used either, but the way I read the docs

and

implies that one
(seek) gets you to a place in the file measured in position units(unicode or bytes) and returns success or not,
and the other (read)
reads from that place for some length in position units(unicode or bytes).

So one gets you to where you want to start, and the other returns scalar data from the start position up to the length you ask for... Hope that is helpful...

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Re^2: can some elaborate the difference between sysread/read sysseek/seek by Marshall (Canon) on Sep 27, 2013 at 04:29 UTC
sysread() is normally used for very low level I/O. Normally in Perl, you shouldn't be doing that. This is possible, but there are buffering complications. read() and seek() are much more normal. Do not mix read, seek or sysread and sysseek together.	[reply]