It is important to note that once the DATA handle is read, it cannot (easily) be re-read (seeking to the beginging of the file puts you at the top of your source, not the top of the DATA handle).

Erm, no it's very easy to do this. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Fcntl qw( :seek );

my $top_o_data = tell( DATA );

for( 1 .. 2 ) {
  print "read $_\n---\n";
  seek( DATA, $top_o_data, SEEK_SET );
  print while <DATA>;        
}

__DATA__
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Update: The problem of course is that you may not see updates (at least not on OS X or Linux that I've checked).

In reply to Re: Re: DATA versus config file by Fletch
in thread DATA versus config file by nimdokk

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