HI dear fellow monks. I'm in trouble writing a pretty big application using Oracle. Here's what's going fishy : working in France, I need some text fields in the database to accept accents ( é à è and friends). So I had to add $ENV{NLS_LANG}='french_france.WE8ISO8859P15'; Before I connect to Oracle. Well, unfortunately there is an annoying side effect : now Oracle returns the floating-point numbers with a comma... Yes, in France the official separator between the integer and floating part is a comma. So  print $toto which used to return 0.45678 now returns what perl calls a "non numeric value" :,45678. I managed that with an atrocious 
$toto =~ s/,/\./

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But isn't there a better (and less ugly) way?

In reply to No clear answer from Oracle by wazoox

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