Hi,

If I understand correctly what you are doing, you don't need the long series of: 

$curpos = tell $infile; 
    seek ($infile, $curpos, 0);
    read ($infile, $fileLocation, 0x08);
$curpos = tell $infile;
    seek ($infile, $curpos, 0);
    read ($infile, $fileSize, 0x08);
$curpos = tell $infile;
    seek ($infile, $curpos, 0);
    read ($infile, $fileName, 0x20);

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This would probably be sufficient: 
    read ($infile, $fileLocation, 0x08);
    read ($infile, $fileSize, 0x08);
    read ($infile, $fileName, 0x20);

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since the read function knows which byte it has last read and which one to read next, so that the calls to seek and tell are most probably not required.

In reply to Re^3: problem with sysseek in loop by Laurent_R
in thread problem with sysseek in loop by james28909

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