Perl in the Terminal

acollins

I'm a terminal nOOb, and just learning Perl in an Internet Programming Class I'm taking. Every time that I run a Perl script, I get the following error message:

Quote:

[Andrews-Computer:~/desktop] acollins% perl code.pl

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

LC_ALL = (unset),

LANG = "en"

are supported and installed on your system.

perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Then the code executes just fine. I guess it's not a big deal because it still works, I just thought perhaps I could do something to fix it.



Any suggestions?

1337_5l4xx0r

Quote:

Originally posted by acollins

I'm a terminal nOOb, and just learning Perl in an Internet Programming Class I'm taking. Every time that I run a Perl script, I get the following error message:







Then the code executes just fine. I guess it's not a big deal because it still works, I just thought perhaps I could do something to fix it.



Any suggestions?

add:



export LC=C

export LC_ALL=C



to your .tcshrc



or type that in manually every time you launch Terminal.app

acollins

Thanks a lot for the info. Just one more question...



Where is my .tcshrc? I made all the invisible files visible and then did a search, but got no results.



Thanks a lot for your help.

gargoyle

export does not work in tcsh, its a command for the bash shell.



Enter the following commands in a tcsh terminal shell (the default shell for teminal.app).

Code:

cd ~

pico .tcshrc









This will put you into your home folder (~) and start the pico editor so you can CREATE your .tcshrc file. Enetr these lines

Code:

setenv LC C

setenv LC_ALL C









Now press control-x, and hit Y then enter to confirm the save. Then type exit, and completely quit the terminal app.



Now restart the terminal app and type "env". You should see a list of environment vars. Somewhere in the list you should see

Code:

LC=C

LC_ALL=C







probably at the bottom.



enjoy.