perlcapt has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I'm having problems getting tell() to return a value other than 0 after doing a sysread().
Update:
merlyn explains why it doesn't work. The manual says to use sysseek(FH,0,1) which returns the offset just as implied. Problem understood and solved
$bytes is a lovely 1024, and there is good stuff in the buffer, but tell() is always returning 0; Is it my reference to a filehandle which works fine for sysread, but not for tell?# in a loop after appropriate open $bytes = sysread($self->{FH},$self->{buffer},1024); print tell($self->{FH}),"\n";
perlcapt
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•Re: tell() on sysread()
by merlyn (Sage) on Oct 25, 2004 at 15:41 UTC | |
by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Oct 25, 2004 at 15:50 UTC | |
by !1 (Hermit) on Oct 25, 2004 at 17:07 UTC |
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