Time-Concise - README

NAME

Time::Concise - Convert to and from concise duration formats.

SYNOPSIS

      use Time::Concise;
      my $seconds = from_concise "5y4d3h2m1s"; # 158141171
      my $concise =   to_concise 158141171;    # 5y4d3h2m1s

DESCRIPTION

Time::Concise exports two functions by default, "from_concise" and "to_concise".

The term concise was borrowed from Time::Duration.

Concise Format
The format is an integer followed immediatley by its duration identifier. White-space will be ignored.

The following table explains the format.

      identifier   duration
      ----------   --------
               y   year
               d   day
               h   hour
               m   minute
               s   second

Functions
to_concise $seconds

            This function requires one argument, an integer number of
            seconds, and returns a concise string representation of the
            duration.

            If the input is not an integer this function returns "undef".

from_concise $concise

            This function requires one argument, a concise string
            representation of the duration, and returns the number of
            seconds in the duration.

            If the concise string contains characters outside those
            represented in a concise duration string this function will
            return "undef".

SEE ALSO

Time::Duration, Time::Seconds, perl.

AUTHOR

Casey West, <casey@geeknest.com>.

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