SPUG: Request for feedback on file-size humanizing routine

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:31:38PM -0700, Jeremy A. Mates wrote:
>Hello-
>
>I threw together a routine that takes random numbers (presumed bytes),
>and converts them to sizes that a human can read, available at:
>
>http://www.sial.org/code/perl/scripts/human.pl
>
I'm attaching one I've been using for several years that adds commas
to integer and decimal numbers for pretty printing.

Bill
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