gangleri / humanbytes

display number of bytes in human readable format and parse from human readable formats

Human readable bytes

This package is used to convert bytes to and from human readable representations. It can convert a string such as '1 MB' into bytes. Convert bytes to another unit eg KB, MB, GB... and also generate a human readable representation of the bytes e.g. 1024 would be displayed as '1 KB'.

Installation

go get -u gangleri.io/pkg/humanbytes

Documentation

Parsing

To convert a string such as 1 KB into bytes:

b, err := humanbytes.ParseBytes("1 KB") // 1024

Convert

To convert the bytes into another unit e.g. KB:

kb, err := humanbytes.Convert(1048576, "MB") // 1MB

Sprint

s, err := humanbytes.Sprint(1024, "KB") // 1KB

Licence

BSD-2-Clause