Re^3: Having Access to a file two times

No: you need to specify a filehandle.

seek FH, 0, 1;
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Take another look at the seek docs.

It's also nice to check the return status of the file operation for success:

seek FH, 0, 1 or die "seek failed: $!";
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Re^4: Having Access to a file two times by oxone (Friar) on Sep 21, 2008 at 10:00 UTC
You mean .. `seek FH, 0, 0;` [download] .. assuming the aim is to rewind back to the start.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Having Access to a file two times by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Sep 21, 2008 at 11:22 UTC
Or even better: `use Fcntl qw/:seek/; seek FH, 0, SEEK_SET or die "Cannot seek on $filename: $!";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Having Access to a file two times by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Sep 21, 2008 at 22:11 UTC
Quite right! Looks like I need to take another look at the seek docs.	[reply]