in reply to problem with sysseek in loop

Is there any specific reason for using these low level IO functions (such as sysseek and sysread) where it seems to me that read would be simpler to use for what you want to do?

Update: changed the links to more recent Perl documentation. Thanks to kennethk.

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Re^2: problem with sysseek in loop
by james28909 (Deacon) on May 05, 2014 at 19:46 UTC
    it is now working, thanks
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Re^2: problem with sysseek in loop
by james28909 (Deacon) on May 05, 2014 at 17:53 UTC
    If i dont use sysseek and sysread, I will get even more errors while trying to name the file. The script almost works i worked on it all morning and now my brain is tired ;(
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Re^2: problem with sysseek in loop
by james28909 (Deacon) on May 05, 2014 at 19:04 UTC
    i changed all to seek and read and still getting same problems.
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