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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-01-18 09:35:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-01-21 10:02:54 -0700 |
| commit | f36a39594f861ee6a30240be88388ba59426275e (patch) | |
| tree | c86df2f47f09e80855e72adfbcbf6e878f546a44 | |
| parent | bf28aba1ae9198db8affb7d48b0e126c12f8fe8b (diff) | |
| download | perl-f36a39594f861ee6a30240be88388ba59426275e.tar.gz | |
locale.pm: Pod tweaks
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/locale.pm | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/locale.pm b/lib/locale.pm index a51e2b1c09..2398599595 100644 --- a/lib/locale.pm +++ b/lib/locale.pm @@ -1,25 +1,26 @@ package locale; -our $VERSION = '1.00'; +our $VERSION = '1.01'; =head1 NAME -locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations +locale - Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations =head1 SYNOPSIS - @x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order + @x = sort @y; # Unicode sorting order { use locale; @x = sort @y; # Locale-defined sorting order } - @x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order again + @x = sort @y; # Unicode sorting order again =head1 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" +locales for built-in operations (for example, LC_CTYPE for regular +expressions, LC_COLLATE for string comparison, and LC_NUMERIC for number +formatting). Each "use locale" or "no locale" affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK. See L<perllocale> for more detailed information on how Perl supports |