I think your oddball way of opening the file may be a problem (use strict
complains about it). Also, you want ">" not ">>" since that says to always
append your writes to the end of the file.
You may want binmode as well.
This appears to work
use strict;
use warnings;
my $file = '+>mailstats.
I'm guessing seek won't go past the end of the file, you'll have to add
logic to add "empty" records to your file in order to go that far. It is
unclear from the Perl documentation on seek (as well as "man fseek") that
this is the behavior, but it seems rational and the most likely reason for
what
I'm creating a file which is just an ASCII text file, but I'm writing
fixed length records into it. At any time, I need to reopen the file and
write a record to a byte position calculated at run time. The write
position will frequently be beyond the end of the current file length,
so I need for the
