Reference: seek
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:37:28Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## seek

    seek filehandle, offset, whence

Positions the file pointer for filehandle, just like the `fseek(3)` call of standard I/O. The first position in a file is at offset `0`, not offset `1`, and offsets refer to byte positions, not line numbers. The function returns `1` upon success, `0` otherwise. For handiness, the function can calculate offsets from various file positions for you. The value of whence specifies which of three file positions your offset is relative to: `0`, the beginning of the file; `1`, the current position in the file; or `2`, the end of the file. offset may be negative for a whence of `1` or `2`.

Reference: scalar |  | Reference: seekdir