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Continue what #4494 started; introduce uid and gid formats.
[perl5.git] / lib / locale.pm
1 package locale;
2
3 =head1 NAME
4
5 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
6
7 =head1 SYNOPSIS
8
9     @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order
10     {
11         use locale;
12         @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
13     }
14     @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order again
15
16 =head1 DESCRIPTION
17
18 This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX
19 locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for regular expressions, and
20 LC_COLLATE for string comparison).  Each "use locale" or "no locale"
21 affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.
22
23 See L<perllocale> for more detailed information on how Perl supports
24 locales.
25
26 =cut
27
28 sub import {
29     $^H |= 0x800;
30 }
31
32 sub unimport {
33     $^H &= ~0x800;
34 }
35
36 1;