Intended to be inherited by other IO::Handle-based objects to provide methods that allow you to seek the file descriptors. Has no constructor.
use IO::Seekable; package IO::XXX; @ISA = qw(IO::Seekable);
Provides two methods.
| seek |
Frontend for the corresponding built-in seek function, which sets a filehandle's position in the file. Takes the following arguments:
offset The offset where you want to set the position.
whence The position in the file that the offset is relative to. Possible values are: 0 for the beginning of the file, 1 for the current position, or 2 for end of file. May also be expressed as the following constants, which are exported:
SEEK_SET Beginning of file
SEEK_CUR Current position
SEEK_END End of file
| tell |
Frontend for the corresponding built-in tell function, which returns the current file position in bytes (starting from 0).
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