Assuming you don't need to read the characters you end up discarding, I'd use the following: (Complete with error checking) 

use List::Util qw( min );

seek($fh, $bytes_in, SEEK_SET)
   or die($!);

my $to_read = $bytes_out-$bytes_in;
while ($to_read) {
   my $rv = read($fh, my $buffer, min($chunk_size, $to_read));
   die($!) if !defined($rv);
   die("Premature eof") if !$rv;
   $to_read -= $rv;
   print($buffer);
}

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If you do want to move the file pointer beyond the last byte you need as you are currently doing, then you could continue always blocks of $chunk_size as you are currently doing.

In reply to Re^2: Advice needed on chunked read + byte-range logic by ikegami
in thread Advice needed on chunked read + byte-range logic by isync

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