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lc EXPR
lc

Returns a lowercased version of EXPR. This is the internal function implementing the \L escape in double-quoted strings. Respects current LC_CTYPE locale if use locale in force. See perllocale and perlunicode for more details about locale and Unicode support.

If EXPR is omitted, uses $_.