gettext: perl-format

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1 15.3.16 Perl Format Strings
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1    There are two kinds format strings in Perl: those acceptable to the
1 Perl built-in function ‘printf’, labelled as ‘perl-format’, and those
1 acceptable to the ‘libintl-perl’ function ‘__x’, labelled as
1 ‘perl-brace-format’.
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1    Perl ‘printf’ format strings are described in the ‘sprintf’ section
1 of ‘man perlfunc’.
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1    Perl brace format strings are described in the
1 ‘Locale::TextDomain(3pm)’ manual page of the CPAN package libintl-perl.
1 In brief, Perl format uses placeholders put between braces (‘{’ and
1 ‘}’).  The placeholder must have the syntax of simple identifiers.
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