Related Work (continued)

<<<< ^^^^^ >>>>

  • Net::FTP::I::sysseek (also by me on CPAN)

Normal files are seekable. Net::FTP filehandles do a "greedy" seek. Problematic when you want to read from a specific offset. 

my $filehandle = $ftp->retr('remote_ftp_file.dat');
 # seeking ahead will fail... because standard seek is greedy
 # instead:
$filehandle->sysseek(2**5);
while (<$filehandle>) {
    # ladida...
}