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Current Perl documentation can be found at perldoc.perl.org.
Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:
Because some stdio's set error and eof flags that need clearing. The
POSIX module defines
clearerr()
that you can use. That is the technically correct way to do it. Here are some less reliable workarounds:
Try keeping around the seekpointer and go there, like this:
$where = tell(LOG); seek(LOG, $where, 0);
If that doesn't work, try seeking to a different part of the file and then back.