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C library function - localeconv()
Description
The C library function struct lconv *localeconv(void) sets or reads location dependent information. These are returned in an object of the lconv structure type.
Declaration
Following is the declaration for localeconv() function.
struct lconv *localeconv(void)
Parameters
NA
Return Value
This function returns a pointer to a struct lconv for the current locale, which has the following structure −
typedef struct { char *decimal_point; char *thousands_sep; char *grouping; char *int_curr_symbol; char *currency_symbol; char *mon_decimal_point; char *mon_thousands_sep; char *mon_grouping; char *positive_sign; char *negative_sign; char int_frac_digits; char frac_digits; char p_cs_precedes; char p_sep_by_space; char n_cs_precedes; char n_sep_by_space; char p_sign_posn; char n_sign_posn; } lconv
Example
The following example shows the usage of localeconv() function.
#include <locale.h> #include <stdio.h> int main () { struct lconv * lc; setlocale(LC_MONETARY, "it_IT"); lc = localeconv(); printf("Local Currency Symbol: %s\n",lc->currency_symbol); printf("International Currency Symbol: %s\n",lc->int_curr_symbol); setlocale(LC_MONETARY, "en_US"); lc = localeconv(); printf("Local Currency Symbol: %s\n",lc->currency_symbol); printf("International Currency Symbol: %s\n",lc->int_curr_symbol); setlocale(LC_MONETARY, "en_GB"); lc = localeconv(); printf ("Local Currency Symbol: %s\n",lc->currency_symbol); printf ("International Currency Symbol: %s\n",lc->int_curr_symbol); printf("Decimal Point = %s\n", lc->decimal_point); return 0; }
Let us compile and run the above program that will produce the following result −
Local Currency Symbol: EUR International Currency Symbol: EUR Local Currency Symbol: $ International Currency Symbol: USD Local Currency Symbol: £ International Currency Symbol: GBP Decimal Point = .
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