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>.

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.