Hi all

I am parsing a file by sentences and outputting them with byte count at the start of each sentence.

my @byte_count;
push (@byte_count, 0);

my $length = scalar(@sentences);

for (my $x = 0; $x < $length; $x++)
{
    my $count;
    $count = length(Encode::encode utf8($sentence[$x]));
    $count += $byte_count[$x];
    $count += 9;
    push (@byte_count, $count);
}

open (Out, ">:utf8", "Sentences and byte count.txt") or die "Can't ope
+n";
for (my $x = 0; $x < $length; $x++)
{
    printf Out "%08d$sentences[$x]\n", $byte_count[$x];
}

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I add the 9 for the 8 digits at the beginning of each line plus the newline at the previous line

The problem is when I use the 'seek' function, it works perfectly fine for the first 3 lines en then somehow breaks. After the 3rd line when I seek, it outputs from somewhere around the middle of the previous entry

use warnings;
use utf8;

open (FILE, "<:utf8", "Sentences and byte count.txt") or die "Can't op
+en";

seek(FILE, 656, 0);
my $line = <FILE>;
print "$line";

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Somehow the byte counting is missing something somewhere. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help, much appreciated

In reply to Byte counts and Seek function by Dr Manhattan

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