Returns a lowercased version of EXPR. This is the internal function implementing the\L escape in double-quoted strings.
If EXPR is omitted, uses$_.
What gets returned depends on several factors:
use bytes is in effect:If the current package has a subroutine namedToLower, it will be used to change the case (See"User-Defined Case Mappings" in perlunicode.) Otherwise Unicode semantics are used for the case change.
use locale is in effectRespects current LC_CTYPE locale. Seeperllocale.
use feature 'unicode_strings' is in effect:Unicode semantics are used for the case change. Any subroutine namedToLower will not be used.
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