SPUG: Request for feedback on file-size humanizing routine

[Jeremy A. Mates]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jeremy Devenport wrote:
> Just out of curiosity has anyone looked at Number::Format? It seems to do
> the same thing.

Number::Format's format_bytes() only supports positive K and M.

Mine supports K, M, G, P, E, Z, Y of both positive and negative values,
allows fudging of numbers up (1021 K -> 1 M), and-- excepting precision
length (working on adding)-- finer grained control over decimals.

Though admittedly I hadn't thought to look in the Number's section for
appropriate modules.  I'll be contacting the author of Number::Format to
see whether my version can be included somehow...

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