You are correct in your interpretation. And it is as simple as that. It only gets complicated if you need to do something like: "go to the line exactly half-way through the 20M file," since it's nigh on impossible to know the byte position of an arbitrary line number without reading through the entire file, a byte (or block, as it were) at a time. =( But as long as you know the byte position already, you're good to go.

bbfu
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In reply to (bbfu) Re(3): 'seek' on a FileHandle.pm object by bbfu
in thread 'seek' on a FileHandle.pm object by dsb

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