Reference: seek
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:48:30Z

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| Chapter 8 Standard Modules |

## seek

    $fh->seek(offset, whence)

Front-end 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

8.94 IO::Seekable |  | Reference: tell