NAME

       Time::Duration::Parse - Parse string that represents time duration

SYNOPSIS

         use Time::Duration::Parse;

         my $seconds = parse_duration("2 minutes and 3 seconds"); # 123

DESCRIPTION

       Time::Duration::Parse is a module to parse human readable duration strings like 2 minutes
       and 3 seconds to seconds.

       It does the opposite of duration_exact function in Time::Duration and is roundtrip safe.
       So, the following is always true.

         use Time::Duration::Parse;
         use Time::Duration;

         my $seconds = int rand 100000;
         is( parse_duration(duration_exact($seconds)), $seconds );

FUNCTIONS

       parse_duration
             $seconds = parse_duration($string);

           Parses duration string and returns seconds. When it encounters an error in a given
           string, it dies an exception saying "Unknown timespec: blah blah blah". This function
           is exported by default.

AUTHOR

       Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

COPYRIGHT

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

       Some internal code is taken from Cache and Cache::Cache modules on CPAN.

SEE ALSO

       Date::Manip, DateTime::Format::Duration, <http://use.perl.org/~miyagawa/journal/30310>