locale(3pm)

locale3pm

Perl pragma to use and avoid posix locales for built-in operations

Usage

    @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order
    {
        use locale;
        @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
    }
    @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order again

Overview

This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for regular expressions, and LC_COLLATE for string comparison). Each "use locale" or "no locale" affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.0
  2. 2.1
  3. 2.2

From perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-6 in Debian 2.2 (Potato). Also shipped by perl-5.005-doc. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.