in reply to Re: Re: OO and <DATA>
in thread OO and <DATA>

Does seek data,0; not work?

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(jeffa) 4Re: OO and <DATA>
by jeffa (Bishop) on Aug 25, 2002 at 18:40 UTC
    Yes, but don't forget to use tell first, lest you spit out the entire program via seek DATA,0,0 :
    use strict; my $pointer = tell DATA; print get_data(); seek DATA,$pointer,0; print get_data(); sub get_data { do {local $/;<DATA>} }

    jeffa

    L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
    -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
    B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
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