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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-10-08 17:07:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-10-08 17:07:42 +0000 |
| commit | 7e4353e96785be675a69a6886d154405dbfdc124 (patch) | |
| tree | 744cbf7bba498683a441457098432da676e7b732 /pod/perldata.pod | |
| parent | a4e0d2399ad31e76c4f1f1f5c7e44c6b5df4e6ae (diff) | |
| download | perl-7e4353e96785be675a69a6886d154405dbfdc124.tar.gz | |
Clarifications on the usage of setlocale() and LC_NUMERIC to
affect the decimal point in output, by Jarkko.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28965
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldata.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldata.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod index 82ad8556c8..cbfe0704ce 100644 --- a/pod/perldata.pod +++ b/pod/perldata.pod @@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ X<interpolation> There is no double interpolation in Perl, so the C<$100> is left as is. +By default floating point numbers substituted inside strings use the +dot (".") as the decimal separator. If C<use locale> is in effect, +and POSIX::setlocale() has been called, the character used for the +decimal separator is affected by the LC_NUMERIC locale. +See L<perllocale> and L<POSIX>. + As in some shells, you can enclose the variable name in braces to disambiguate it from following alphanumerics (and underscores). You must also do |