rewinding an input filehandle

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Re: rewinding an input filehandle by ketema (Scribe) on Jul 28, 2005 at 19:23 UTC
I think perldoc -f seek should help you out	[reply]
Re: rewinding an input filehandle by chas (Priest) on Jul 28, 2005 at 19:30 UTC
You can use `seek`, e.g. `seek F,0,0` to reset to the beginning of the file. chas	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: rewinding an input filehandle by mugwumpjism (Hermit) on Jul 29, 2005 at 00:42 UTC
There is also `IO::Handle::ungetc` for small rewinds on streams. $h=$ENV{HOME};my@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/." ."signature";$t=`cat $s`;print$t,"\n",$q[rand($#q)],"\n"; [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]