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in thread Question about binary file I/O

Check perlfunc if you want. But the standard is to seek and then to write or syswrite. (The difference being whether you want to buffer your requests to write. Usually you do. Really.)

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Re^11: Question about binary file I/O
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 05, 2011 at 09:16 UTC
    I think you mean print (buffered by default) or syswrite (unbuffered)? write is not the opposite of read
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      Gah, I've been playing with Python too much. You're right.
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        So there is no single function that does that...well, that just sucks. I was hoping I could do it without needing seek(), but I guess if that's the only way, I don't have much of a choice. Isn't there a website somewhere where you can suggest features for the next version of Perl? That would be at least the second thing that I could think of.
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