in reply to Question on seek()

Perhaps you did not import SEEK_END and you did not use warnings? 
use Fcntl ':seek';
... 
# your code here

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Boris

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Re^2: Question on seek()
by Joe_Cullity (Beadle) on Aug 04, 2005 at 19:29 UTC
    Thanks Boris that worked fine. One of the things that throws me using Perl vs C/C++ is that C/C++ always mentions what includes you need, but I don't see any equivelent in perl to let you know what "use" moduals one needs to request.
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      but I don't see any equivelent in perl to let you know what "use" moduals one needs to request.
      From the perl documentation for seek:
      For WHENCE you may use the constants "SEEK_SET", "SEEK_CUR", and "SEEK_END" (start of the file, current position, end of the file) from the Fcntl module.

      Dave.

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      Hmm my C does not. It just tells that something is missing. perl does this also with warnings enabled. Start any of you scripts with: 
      use strict;
use warnings;

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      I learned about the constants for seek from the docs of seek.
      Boris
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