By the way, the reason Number::Format doesn't do "giga" is that on 32 bit systems there can be overflow issues.
On 18 Sep 2006 16:27:52 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I'm replying to email I saw on the list archives... Bill> Randal L. Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote on 16 Sep 2006 16:22:26 -0700: >> [...] I tried using Template::Plugin::Number::Format and it >> didn't do what I wanted, so I wrote my own. I use this both for the bytes >> and for the file count, simply by applying the BLOCKSIZE scaling factor as >> needed. Bill> I'm the author of Number::Format which I have been sadly neglecting Bill> for a long time. However I recently moved the project from my own CVS Bill> repository to SourceForge and started adding new developers. One of Bill> these is Darren Chamberlain, the author of Bill> Template::Plugin::Number::Format. That module is going to be made a Bill> part of the Number::Format project and released as part of Bill> Number::Format going forward. Any patches, features, ideas, or other Bill> contributions you (or others on this list) might have to the Bill> Number::Format project would be welcomed. Bill> http://sourceforge.net/projects/number-format/ The problem is that I wanted to get "the smallest string that fits into 5 chars". I didn't see any option to do that... only options that control the number of digits past the decimal point. If you see my code, you'll see that I switch from %f to %d when the value would overflow 4 chars (n.nn). Hmm. %4g might have done the same thing. :) But that's still not what "precision" means in format_bytes of Number::Format. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
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