in reply to Re: File::Size
in thread File::Size

There's no promise that the return value from tell will be the byte offset, only that it can be used with seek to go back to the same place. On some systems, it may need to be "a magic cookie" that has the record and line number encoded opaquely, for example.

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Re: •Re: Re: File::Size
by Roger (Parson) on Jan 14, 2004 at 02:00 UTC
    Thanks for the tip. ;-)