locale

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3perl)
Updated: 2001-02-22
Index
Return to Main Contents

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

See perllocale for more detailed information on how Perl supports locales.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 19:20:22 GMT, April 18, 2024