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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2014-05-15 14:13:36 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2014-05-15 14:18:26 -0600
commit458680b3aae46fcb1cdd0271ddb73bcf59dbb8dc (patch)
treec763989aa87261393a85e08735a04c2e1ab74e6d /ext
parent36c4d3a022e7b44aa60805dfca138d283592c14f (diff)
downloadperl-458680b3aae46fcb1cdd0271ddb73bcf59dbb8dc.tar.gz
POSIX.pod: Add clarification for strtod();
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-rw-r--r--ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod
index ec52dd409c..ee1e77afcf 100644
--- a/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod
+++ b/ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pod
@@ -1491,7 +1491,9 @@ POSIX-compliant systems set C<$!> (C<$ERRNO>) to indicate a translation
error, so clear C<$!> before calling strtod. However, non-POSIX systems
may not check for overflow, and therefore will never set C<$!>.
-strtod respects any POSIX I<setlocale()> settings.
+strtod respects any POSIX I<setlocale()> C<LC_TIME> settings,
+regardless of whether or not it is called from Perl code that is within
+the scope of S<C<use locale>>.
To parse a string C<$str> as a floating point number use