ahh I am sorry! all my fault! I didn't see that line and I started searching for the meaning of WHENCE after the Constants are explained.
oups! Regards. Martin On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:40:24 -0500 "Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 2:32 PM, Martin Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:28:01 -0500 > > "Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The seek function has three ways of measuring what the second argument > > > means: > > > 0: move relative the beginning of the file > > > 1: move relative to the current position in the file > > > 2: move relative to the end of the file > > > > Where is this information from? > > not from perldoc -f seek :-( > snip > > It is a restatement of information from the first paragraph. > > from perldoc -f seek > The values for WHENCE are 0 to set the > new position in bytes to POSITION, 1 to set it to the current > position plus POSITION, and 2 to set it to EOF plus POSITION > (typically negative). > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
