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in reply to Closing and re-opening the DATA Filehandle

Rather than opening and closing the file, how about opening it once and using seek DATA, 0, 0 to reposition yourself at the start of __DATA__? Anyone see a problem with this approach?

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: Oops. I keep forgetting that __DATA__ doesn't behave like a normal filehandle. See tye's answer below.

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