Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, Second Edition

Name

seek

Synopsis

seek DEST, IO, OFFSET, STARTFLAG
seek DEST, IO, UPPER32, LOWER32, STARTFLAG
               

Set the file position of a ParrotIO object to a given offset from a starting position (STARTFLAG: 0 is the beginning of the file, 1 is current the position, 2 is the end of the file). DEST is the success or failure of the seek.

64-bit seek combines UPPER32 and LOWER32 to get one 64-bit OFFSET.

Arguments: P, I, I or P, I, I, I