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Hi,
I am writing to a file print like print <filehandle> "some stuff"
I want to get the row and col in number where the filehandle has written,
is it possible to get the values? , another how can I force fully move the
position of curser so that it writes on/from row,col I want
thanks
D

Diana <> wrote:

> I want to get the row and col in number where the filehandle has written,


There are no rows and columns in a file, just a stream of bytes.


> is it possible to get the values? ,


You can get the byte position of the file pointer with:

perldoc -f tell


> another how can I force fully move the
> position of curser so that it writes on/from row,col I want


You can set the position of the file pointer with:

perldoc -f seek


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