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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-07-05 20:23:22 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-07-05 20:32:05 -0600 |
| commit | 062ca197e623f0646d8d0abee5cc12e86d1ab7ec (patch) | |
| tree | 2e781b5f9d462ef1bb3234ca1a5c2df97fa4e95b | |
| parent | d9e2eb4b36851afd7c7f35566c1963475e3dd82c (diff) | |
| download | perl-062ca197e623f0646d8d0abee5cc12e86d1ab7ec.tar.gz | |
perllocale: de-emphasize /l
/l outside of 'use locale' rarely makes any sense to use.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perllocale.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index 8926d8bc81..c19bb75754 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -953,7 +953,8 @@ always in force, even if the program environment suggested otherwise (see L<The setlocale function>). By default, Perl still behaves this way for backward compatibility. If you want a Perl application to pay attention to locale information, you B<must> use the S<C<use locale>> -pragma (see L<The use locale pragma>) or for just pattern matching, the +pragma (see L<The use locale pragma>) or, in the unlikely event +that you want to do so for just pattern matching, the C</l> regular expression modifier (see L<perlre/Character set modifiers>) to instruct it to do so. |