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tell FILEHANDLE

tell

Returns the current position for FILEHANDLE. FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value gives the name of the actual filehandle. If FILEHANDLE is omitted, assumes the file last read.

Source: Perl builtin functions
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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