Re^2: seek question

[stevieb]

oooh, I like the inline method of resetting $. that you provided in that thread:

seek $FH, $. = 0, 0;

[Anonymous Monk]

Keep in mind though that the seek will fail for streams, named pipes and the like. (/me's thinking of all the kludgy softwares out there e.g. mplayer that couldn't properly read a playlist from a pipe.)