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in thread A locale independent sprintf?

Very handy. When applied at the package scope it will also allow code to avoid locale based effects across subs (i.e. more than just sprintf).

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Re^5: A locale independent sprintf?
by jcb (Parson) on Jul 30, 2020 at 01:51 UTC

    Unless you are putting your packages in blocks, locale does not exist in package scope — it is a lexical pragma, just like strict and warnings. So no locale at file scope will inhibit locale effects for everything after it in the same file, unless countermanded with use locale.