Hi, I'm having a problem to manipulate the file pointer on STDOUT, and I'd like to hear from experienced people. Here is a sample code that replaces 1 from the left with 0 every second, and this works. 
use strict;
use warnings;
$|=1;
open(F, '+< temp');
print F "11111111111111111111111111111111\n";
for (0..31){
  seek(F, $_, 0);
  print F '0';
  sleep(1);
}
close(F);

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Below is the sample oode that I have a problem with. It is aimed to do the same as above program except doing it on STDOUT, but seek() doesn't seem to move the file pointer and it starts printing '0' from where the current pointer is, instead of overriding existing strings. 
use strict;
use warnings;
$|=1;
open(STDOUT, '+<');
print STDOUT "11111111111111111111111111111111\n";
for (0..31){
  seek(STDOUT, $_, 0);
  print STDOUT '0';
  sleep(1);
}
close(STDOUT);

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Does seek() not work on STDOUT in the same way as it does on the files, or am I doing something wrong ? Appreciate your help.

In reply to seek() command on STDOUT by ybnormal

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