.------[ Kipp, James wrote (2002/10/31 at 09:53:10) ]------
|
| Thanks. I looked throught Programming perl but did not find much. Ok, I see
| i misread the statement and ther are only 3 params. Here is how I read this
| statment:
| seek(FH,(-s "foo.txt")-2,0);
|
| seek back 2 bytes from the end of the file ?
|
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Actually when the third argument ( aka WHENCE ) is set to zero it
means "Set the new position to the second argument". So it's not
saying "Go to the end and seek back 2 bytes" it's simply saying seek
to size - 2 which happens to be 2 bytes before the end.
Does that make sense?
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