Re: Restore

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> This seems inefficient.  I'd rather open the file once outside the
> subroutine, leave it open, and start at the beginning of the file whenever I
> enter the subroutine.  But without the pseudo-'restore' command, the next
> time around I begin looking in the file where I left off before.

Use the "seek()" function. If you want to 'resume' the last positon
you accesed in the file, you can store 'where()' in a variable and
then 'seek()' to it.

Regards,
  Daniel Berstein
  danielberstein at usa.net
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/9316

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