You are correct on both points, although I didn't intentionally hide anything - most of the data I work with day to day is plain ASCII, so I just missed the encoding issue (and Tie::File creates nonexistent files and I was testing in /tmp - but without or die it fails silently on e.g. permission denied, so that's not an excuse).

use Tie::File;
use Fcntl qw/O_RDWR/;
tie my @a, 'Tie::File', $file, mode=>O_RDWR or die $!;
# but doesn't handle encodings

# - or -

use Tie::File;
open my $fh, '+<:encoding(UTF-8)', $file or die $!;
tie my @a, 'Tie::File', $fh or die $!;

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Better examples, I hope. Thanks for setting me straight.

In reply to Re^9: Loading a part of the file to array using Tie::File by haukex
in thread Loading a part of the file to array using Tie::File by ansh007

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