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in reply to Re: Reading from where I left off
in thread Reading from where I left off

I think the OP understood that much:

Obviously this involves a trivial amount of work with seek and tell, and some way of squirrelling away the necessary context somewhere else.
I think the question was whether there's a module on CPAN that will do that for you.