use strict; use warnings; use locale; use POSIX; my $loc = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'lt'); if (defined $loc) { print "loc is defined\n"; print "loc value: *$loc*\n"; } else { print "loc is undefined\n"; } my @sorttest = qw(ia ib ic ya yb yc); for (sort @sorttest) { print "$_\n"; }