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8.130. IO::Seekable
Intended to be inherited by other IO::Handle-based objects to provide methods that allow you to seek the file descriptors. Has no constructor.
use IO::Seekable; package IO::XXX; @ISA = qw(IO::Seekable);
Provides two methods.
| seek |
$fh->seek(offset, whence)
Frontend for the corresponding built-in seek function, which sets a filehandle's position in the file. Takes the following arguments:
- offset
- The offset where you want to set the position.
- whence
-
The position in the file that the offset is relative to. Possible
values are: 0 for the beginning of the file,
1 for the current position, or
2 for end of file. May also be expressed as the
following constants, which are exported:
- SEEK_SET
- Beginning of file
- SEEK_CUR
- Current position
- SEEK_END
- End of file
| tell |
$fh->tell( )
Frontend for the corresponding built-in tell function, which returns the current file position in bytes (starting from 0).
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