Let me see if I got this straight now, after rereading the definition of 'seek' as according to Programming Perl, 3rd Ed.(I think you know that book... =).

If 'seek' is called like so: 

seek( FH, 0, 0 );

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...the first argument refers to the filehandle, the second argument to the offset, and the third one of three positions in the file(beginning, current, end).

I see my mistake was thinking of 'offset' as equivalent to line numbers, which it is not. It refers to byte positions. So, my new question is: Is 'byte positions' really as simple as it sounds(the positions of the byte in the file)? So if I knew the exact byte position that I wanted to seek to I could enter it as the offset argument and be taken right there?

Amel - f.k.a. - kel

In reply to Re: Re: 'seek' on a FileHandle.pm object by dsb
in thread 'seek' on a FileHandle.pm object by dsb

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