in reply to getc skips ahead

What does getc return? If undef, then you need to check $! for IO errors.

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Re^2: getc skips ahead
by Stephen Toney (Sexton) on Aug 15, 2004 at 14:00 UTC
    You are absolutely right. I should be doing this and will do so. Thanks for the reply. Stephen
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