When is 7.5 < 7.5? 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;

my $foo = 7.5;
print "foo is '$foo'\n";

my $winmgmts = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:");

my $bar = 7.5;
print "bar is '$bar'\n";

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Outputs the following on one of my customers machines (perl 5.6.1/win2k):

foo is '7.5'
bar is '7,5'
There's something spooky happening to my perl environment when I call that GetObject on winmgmts. It doesn't happen for all GetObject calls, only those with winmgmts.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Better yet, does anyone know how to contain the strange influence of GetObject call? It's messing things up all over the place, when I change locale in the middle of a run!
Thanks for your help


- Boldra

In reply to Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:") changes my locale by Boldra

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