From: khabibiuf@... (Khurram)
Date: 2002-09-10T23:54:08+09:00
Subject: Reading a specific offset into a file.

Hi all,

What is an easy way to read a specific byte offset of a file?  Right
now I'm going through and using the .getc function until I get to the
specific offset I need.  This is very tedious because I just have a
list of .getc calls.  THere must be an easier way to do this?

Right now I'm doing this in order to get to 4th byte in file:
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a = File.open("example.dat")
a.getc
a.getc
a.getc
a.getc 
byte_4 = a.getc
a.close
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Thanks,

- Khurram