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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perllocale.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index 7a48752649..41a0bc5d8b 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -323,18 +323,7 @@ can use POSIX::strcoll() if you don't want this fall-back: $equal_in_locale will be true if the collation locale specifies a dictionary-like ordering which ignores space characters completely, and -which folds case. Alternatively, you can use this idiom: - - use locale; - $s_a = "space and case ignored"; - $s_b = "SpaceAndCaseIgnored"; - $equal_in_locale = $s_a ge $s_b && $s_a le $s_b; - -which works because neither C<ne> nor C<ge> falls back to doing a -byte-by-byte comparison when the operands are equal according to the -locale. The idiom may be less efficient than using strcoll(), but, -unlike that function, it is not confused by strings containing embedded -nulls. +which folds case. If you have a single string which you want to check for "equality in locale" against several others, you might think you could gain a little @@ -808,4 +797,4 @@ L<POSIX (3)/strxfrm> Jarkko Hietaniemi's original F<perli18n.pod> heavily hacked by Dominic Dunlop, assisted by the perl5-porters. -Last update: Tue Dec 31 01:30:55 EST 1996 +Last update: Wed Jan 22 11:04:58 EST 1997 |