Provided by: libnumber-bytes-human-perl_0.09-1_all bug

NAME

       Number::Bytes::Human - Convert byte count to human readable format

SYNOPSIS

         use Number::Bytes::Human qw(format_bytes parse_bytes);
         $size = format_bytes(0); # '0'
         $size = format_bytes(2*1024); # '2.0K'

         $size = format_bytes(1_234_890, bs => 1000); # '1.3M'
         $size = format_bytes(1E9, bs => 1000); # '1.0G'

         my $bytes = parse_bytes('1.0K');   # 1024
         my $bytes = parse_bytes('1.0KB');  # 1000, SI unit
         my $bytes = parse_bytes('1.0KiB'); # 1024, SI unit

         # the OO way
         $human = Number::Bytes::Human->new(bs => 1000, si => 1);
         $size = $human->format(1E7); # '10MB'

         $bytes = $human->parse('10MB');   # 10*1000*1000
         $bytes = $human->parse('10MiB');  # 10*1024*1024
         $bytes = $human->parse('10M');    # Error, no SI unit

         $human->set_options(zero => '-');
         $size = $human->format(0);    # '-'
         $bytes = $human->parse('-');  # 0

         $human = Number::Bytes::Human->new(bs => 1000, round_style => 'round', precision => 2);
         $size = $human->format(10240000); # '10.24MB'

DESCRIPTION

       THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE: THE DOCUMENTATION AND THE CODE WILL SUFFER CHANGES SOME DAY
       (THANKS, GOD!).

       This module provides a formatter which turns byte counts to usual readable format, like
       '2.0K', '3.1G', '100B'.  It was inspired in the "-h" option of Unix utilities like "du",
       "df" and "ls" for "human-readable" output.

       From the FreeBSD man page of "df": http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=df

         "Human-readable" output.  Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
         Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
         number of digits to four or fewer using base 2 for sizes.

         byte      B
         kilobyte  K = 2**10 B = 1024 B
         megabyte  M = 2**20 B = 1024 * 1024 B
         gigabyte  G = 2**30 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
         terabyte  T = 2**40 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B

         petabyte  P = 2**50 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
         exabyte   E = 2**60 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
         zettabyte Z = 2**70 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B
         yottabyte Y = 2**80 B = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B

       I have found this link to be quite useful:

         http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

       If you feel like a hard-drive manufacturer, you can start counting bytes by powers of 1000
       (instead of the generous 1024).  Just use "bs => 1000".

       But if you are a floppy disk manufacturer and want to start counting in units of 1024000
       (for your "1.44 MB" disks)?  Then use "bs => 1_024_000".

       If you feel like a purist academic, you can force the use of metric prefixes according to
       the Dec 1998 standard by the IEC. Never mind the units for base 1000 are "('B', 'kB',
       'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB')" and, even worse, the ones for base 1024 are
       "('B', 'KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', 'TiB', 'PiB', 'EiB', 'ZiB', 'YiB')" with the horrible names:
       bytes, kibibytes, mebibytes, etc.  All you have to do is to use "si => 1". Ain't that
       beautiful the SI system? Read about it:

         http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

       You can try a pure Perl "ls -lh"-inspired command with the one-liner, er, two-liner:

         $ perl -MNumber::Bytes::Human=format_bytes \
                -e 'printf "%5s %s\n", format_bytes(-s), $_ for @ARGV' *

       Why to write such a module? Because if people can write such things in C, it can be
       written much easier in Perl and then reused, refactored, abused. And then, when it is much
       improved, some brave soul can port it back to C (if only for the warm feeling of painful
       programming).

       It is also possible to parse human readable formatted bytes. The automatic format
       detection recognizes SI units with the blocksizes of 1000 and 1024 respectively and
       additionally the customary K / M / G etc. with blocksize 1024. When si => 1 is added to
       the options only SI units are recognized. Explicitly specifying a blocksize changes it for
       all detected units.

   OBJECTS
       An alternative to the functional style of this module is the OO fashion. This is useful
       for avoiding the unnecessary parsing of the arguments over and over if you have to format
       lots of numbers

         for (@sizes) {
           my $fmt_size = format_bytes($_, @args);
           ...
         }

       versus

         my $human = Number::Format::Bytes->new(@args);
         for (@sizes) {
           my $fmt_size = $human->format($_);
           ...
         }

       for TODO [TODO] MAKE IT JUST A MATTER OF STYLE: memoize _parse_args() $seed == undef

   FUNCTIONS
       format_bytes
             $h_size = format_bytes($size, @options);

           Turns a byte count (like 1230) to a readable format like '1.3K'.  You have a bunch of
           options to play with. See the section "OPTIONS" to know the details.

       parse_bytes
             $size = parse_bytes($h_size, @options);

           Turns a human readable byte count into a number of the equivalent bytes.

   METHODS
       new
             $h = Number::Bytes::Human->new(@options);

           The constructor. For details on the arguments, see the section "OPTIONS".

       format
             $h_size = $h->format($size);

           Turns a byte count (like 1230) to a readable format like '1.3K'.  The statements

             $h = Number::Bytes::Human->new(@options);
             $h_size = $h->format($size);

           are equivalent to "$h_size = format_bytes($size, @options)", with only one pass for
           the option arguments.

       parse
             $size = $h->parse($h_size)

           Turns a human readable byte count into the number of bytes.  The statements

             $h = Number::Bytes::Human->new(@options);
             $size = $h->format($h_size);

           are equivalent to "$size = parse_bytes($h_size, @options)", with only one pass for the
           option arguments.

       set_options
             $h->set_options(@options);

           To alter the options of a "Number::Bytes::Human" object.  See "OPTIONS".

   OPTIONS
       BASE
             block | base | block_size | bs => 1000 | 1024 | 1024000
             base_1024 | block_1024 | 1024 => 1
             base_1000 | block_1000 | 1000 => 1

           The base to be used: 1024 (default), 1000 or 1024000.

           Any other value throws an exception.

       SUFFIXES
             suffixes => 1000 | 1024 | 1024000 | si_1000 | si_1024 | $arrayref

           By default, the used suffixes stand for '', 'K', 'M', ...  for base 1024 and '', 'k',
           'M', ... for base 1000 (which are indeed the usual metric prefixes with implied unit
           as bytes, 'B'). For the weird 1024000 base, suffixes are '', 'M', 'T', etc.

       ZERO
             zero => string | undef

           The string 0 maps to ('0' by default). If "undef", the general case is used.  The
           string may contain '%S' in which case the suffix for byte is used.

             format_bytes(0, zero => '-') => '-'

       METRIC SYSTEM
             si => 1

       ROUND
             round_function => $coderef
             round_style => 'ceil' | 'floor' | 'round' | 'trunc'

       TO_S
       QUIET
             quiet => 1

           Suppresses the warnings emitted. Currently, the only case is when the number is large
           than "$base**(@suffixes+1)".

       PRECISION
             precision => <integer>

           default = 1 sets the precicion of digits, only apropreacte for round_style 'round' or
           if you want to accept it in as the second parameter to your custome round_function.

       PRECISION_CUTOFF
             precision_cutoff => <integer>

           default = 1 when the number of digits exceeds this number causes the precision to be
           cutoff (was default behaviour in 0.07 and below)

   EXPORT
       It is alright to import "format_bytes" and "parse_bytes", but nothing is exported by
       default.

DIAGNOSTICS

         "unknown round style '$style'";

         "invalid base: $block (should be 1024, 1000 or 1024000)";

         "round function ($args{round_function}) should be a code ref";

         "suffixes ($args{suffixes}) should be 1000, 1024, 1024000 or an array ref";

         "negative numbers are not allowed" (??)

TO DO

       A function "parse_bytes"

         parse_bytes($str, $options)

       which transforms '1k' to 1000, '1K' to 1024, '1MB' to 1E6, '1M' to 1024*1024, etc. (like
       gnu du).

         $str =~ /^\s*(\d*\.?\d*)\s*(\S+)/ # $num $suffix

SEE ALSO

       lib/human.c and lib/human.h in GNU coreutils.

       The "_convert()" solution by COG in Filesys::DiskUsage.

BUGS

       Please report bugs via CPAN RT http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Number-Bytes-Human
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Number-Bytes-Human> or
       mailto://bug-Number-Bytes-Human@rt.cpan.org <mailto://bug-Number-Bytes-Human@rt.cpan.org>.
       I will not be able to close the bug as BestPractical ignore my claims that I cannot log
       in, but I will answer anyway.

AUTHOR

       Adriano R. Ferreira, <ferreira@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2005-2007 by Adriano R. Ferreira

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.