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PERL seekdir Function


Syntax

seekdir DIRHANDLE, POS


Definition and Usage

Sets the current position within DIRHANDLE to POS. The value of POS must be a value previously returned by telldir.

seekdir() function is similar to Unix seekdir() system call.

Return Value

  • 0 on failure

  • 1 on success

Example

Create one directory testdir inside /tmp and Try out following example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

opendir(DIR, "/tmp");

print("Position without read : ", telldir(DIR), "\n");

$dir = readdir(DIR);
print("Position after one read : ", telldir(DIR), "\n");
print "$dir\n";
seekdir(DIR,0);

$dir = readdir(DIR);
print "$dir\n";
print("Position after second read : " , telldir(DIR), "\n");

closedir(DIR);

It will produce following results:

Position without read : 0
Position after one read : 1220443271
test.txt
test.txt
Position after second read : 1220443271

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