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 ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Wiles [mailto:frank@;wiles.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:38 AM > To: Kipp, James > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Question about seek, Was: Trailing 5 lines of a file > >> > Actually there are only three. FH, tell(FH)-2, and 0. If > you use 2 > for the WHENCE value you can use negative values for the > position to > seek to a position relative to the end of the file. > > You might try Programming Perl or the Cookbook for more info on > using seek(). > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
