Dave Chappell wrote:
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> I am trying to use the seek function to force where my second while loop
> starts within file tst.txt but I see the $. Gets reset to 0 before while
> () starts.
The $. is not related to the value that seek uses. To get the current
position in the file that seek can use
Sorry that I am not good in English , so dunno what do you want exactly =)
But after in view of your code, it seem that you 've doing something wrong,
maybe... I don't know.. So let's check it out =)
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> ---Code Snip
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> open (IN, "tst.txt) or die "Cannot open $file for read :$!";
>
> m
I am trying to use the seek function to force where my second while loop
starts within file tst.txt but I see the $. Gets reset to 0 before while
() starts.
My ultimate goal for this script is when a web page loads on my site.
The script executes, reads portions of tst.txt that have changed s