In that case I can think of two things to do.

1. Use a tied filehandle. The tied object will contain the line you already read, and the real filehandle. Pass the tied filehandle to the subroutine. When the subroutine tries to read the tied filehandle the first time, give it the line you already read. After that, give it data out of the real filehandle.

2. Read all the data from standard input and save it to a temporary file, or several temporary files. Then use seek on the temporary file.

Solutions 'outside the box' would include (3) redesigning the stupid subroutines that require a filehandle argument instead of a string argument, and (4) finding the person responsible for dumping all the file data insto a single stream in the first place, and hitting him with an ax.

In reply to Re: seeking piped STDIO by Dominus
in thread seeking piped STDIO by timurFriedman

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