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, <
[email protected]>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004 Casey West. All rights reserved. This module is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
as Perl itself.
