Re^2: seek question

oooh, I like the inline method of resetting $. that you provided in that thread:

seek $FH, $. = 0, 0;

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Re^3: seek question by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2017 at 16:48 UTC
Keep in mind though that the `seek` will fail for streams, named pipes and the like. (/me's thinking of all the kludgy softwares out there e.g. mplayer that couldn't properly read a playlist from a pipe.)	[reply] [d/l]