humanize

README

Humane Units

Just a few functions for helping humanize times and sizes.

go get it as github.com/dustin/go-humanize, import it as "github.com/dustin/go-humanize", use it as humanize

Sizes

This lets you take numbers like 82854982 and convert them to useful strings like, 83MB or 79MiB (whichever you prefer).

Example:

fmt.Printf("That file is %s.", humanize.Bytes(82854982))

Times

This lets you take a time.Time and spit it out in relative terms. For example, 12 seconds ago or 3 days from now.

Example:

fmt.Printf("This was touched %s", humanize.Time(someTimeInstance))

Thanks to Kyle Lemons for the time implementation from an IRC conversation one day. It's pretty neat.

Ordinals

From a mailing list discussion where a user wanted to be able to label ordinals.

0 -> 0th
1 -> 1st
2 -> 2nd
3 -> 3rd
4 -> 4th
[...]

Example:

fmt.Printf("You're my %s best friend.", humanize.Ordinal(193))

Commas

Want to shove commas into numbers? Be my guest.

0 -> 0
100 -> 100
1000 -> 1,000
1000000000 -> 1,000,000,000
-100000 -> -100,000

Example:

fmt.Printf("You owe $%s.\n", humanize.Comma(6582491))

Ftoa

Nicer float64 formatter that removes trailing zeros.

fmt.Printf("%f", 2.24)                   // 2.240000
fmt.Printf("%s", humanize.Ftoa(2.24))    // 2.24
fmt.Printf("%f", 2.0)                    // 2.000000
fmt.Printf("%s", humanize.Ftoa(2.0))     // 2

SI notation

Format numbers with SI notation.

Example:

humanize.SI(0.00000000223, "M")    // 2.23nM

Documentation

Overview

Package humanize converts boring ugly numbers to human-friendly strings and back.

Durations can be turned into strings such as "3 days ago", numbers representing sizes like 82854982 into useful strings like, "83MB" or "79MiB" (whichever you prefer).

Index

• Constants
• Variables
• func BigBytes(s *big.Int) string
• func BigComma(b *big.Int) string
• func BigIBytes(s *big.Int) string
• func Bytes(s uint64) string
• func Comma(v int64) string
• func Commaf(v float64) string
• func ComputeSI(input float64) (float64, string)
• func Ftoa(num float64) string
• func IBytes(s uint64) string
• func Ordinal(x int) string
• func ParseBigBytes(s string) (*big.Int, error)
• func ParseBytes(s string) (uint64, error)
• func ParseSI(input string) (float64, string, error)
• func RelTime(a, b time.Time, albl, blbl string) string
• func SI(input float64, unit string) string
• func Time(then time.Time) string

Constants

const (
	Byte = 1 << (iota * 10)
	KiByte
	MiByte
	GiByte
	TiByte
	PiByte
	EiByte
)

IEC Sizes. kibis of bits

const (
	IByte = 1
	KByte = IByte * 1000
	MByte = KByte * 1000
	GByte = MByte * 1000
	TByte = GByte * 1000
	PByte = TByte * 1000
	EByte = PByte * 1000
)

SI Sizes.

const (
	Minute   = 60
	Hour     = 60 * Minute
	Day      = 24 * Hour
	Week     = 7 * Day
	Month    = 30 * Day
	Year     = 12 * Month
	LongTime = 37 * Year
)

Seconds-based time units

Variables

var (

	// BigByte is one byte in bit.Ints
	BigByte = big.NewInt(1)
	// BigKiByte is 1,024 bytes in bit.Ints
	BigKiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigMiByte is 1,024 k bytes in bit.Ints
	BigMiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigKiByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigGiByte is 1,024 m bytes in bit.Ints
	BigGiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigMiByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigTiByte is 1,024 g bytes in bit.Ints
	BigTiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigGiByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigPiByte is 1,024 t bytes in bit.Ints
	BigPiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigTiByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigEiByte is 1,024 p bytes in bit.Ints
	BigEiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigPiByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigZiByte is 1,024 e bytes in bit.Ints
	BigZiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigEiByte, bigIECExp)
	// BigYiByte is 1,024 z bytes in bit.Ints
	BigYiByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigZiByte, bigIECExp)
)

var (

	// BigSIByte is one SI byte in big.Ints
	BigSIByte = big.NewInt(1)
	// BigKByte is 1,000 SI bytes in big.Ints
	BigKByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigSIByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigMByte is 1,000 SI k bytes in big.Ints
	BigMByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigKByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigGByte is 1,000 SI m bytes in big.Ints
	BigGByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigMByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigTByte is 1,000 SI g bytes in big.Ints
	BigTByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigGByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigPByte is 1,000 SI t bytes in big.Ints
	BigPByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigTByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigEByte is 1,000 SI p bytes in big.Ints
	BigEByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigPByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigZByte is 1,000 SI e bytes in big.Ints
	BigZByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigEByte, bigSIExp)
	// BigYByte is 1,000 SI z bytes in big.Ints
	BigYByte = (&big.Int{}).Mul(BigZByte, bigSIExp)
)

Functions

func BigBytes

func BigBytes(s *big.Int) string

BigBytes produces a human readable representation of an SI size.

See also: ParseBigBytes.

BigBytes(82854982) -> 83MB

func BigComma

func BigComma(b *big.Int) string

BigComma produces a string form of the given big.Int in base 10 with commas after every three orders of magnitude.

func BigIBytes

func BigIBytes(s *big.Int) string

BigIBytes produces a human readable representation of an IEC size.

See also: ParseBigBytes.

BigIBytes(82854982) -> 79MiB

func Bytes

func Bytes(s uint64) string

Bytes produces a human readable representation of an SI size.

See also: ParseBytes.

Bytes(82854982) -> 83MB

func Comma

func Comma(v int64) string

Comma produces a string form of the given number in base 10 with commas after every three orders of magnitude.

e.g. Comma(834142) -> 834,142

func Commaf

func Commaf(v float64) string

Commaf produces a string form of the given number in base 10 with commas after every three orders of magnitude.

e.g. Comma(834142.32) -> 834,142.32

func ComputeSI

func ComputeSI(input float64) (float64, string)

ComputeSI finds the most appropriate SI prefix for the given number and returns the prefix along with the value adjusted to be within that prefix.

See also: SI, ParseSI.

e.g. ComputeSI(2.2345e-12) -> (2.2345, "p")

func Ftoa

func Ftoa(num float64) string

Ftoa converts a float to a string with no trailing zeros.

func IBytes

func IBytes(s uint64) string

IBytes produces a human readable representation of an IEC size.

See also: ParseBytes.

IBytes(82854982) -> 79MiB

func Ordinal

func Ordinal(x int) string

Ordinal gives you the input number in a rank/ordinal format.

Ordinal(3) -> 3rd

func ParseBigBytes

func ParseBigBytes(s string) (*big.Int, error)

ParseBigBytes parses a string representation of bytes into the number of bytes it represents.

See also: BigBytes, BigIBytes.

ParseBigBytes("42MB") -> 42000000, nil ParseBigBytes("42mib") -> 44040192, nil

func ParseBytes

func ParseBytes(s string) (uint64, error)

ParseBytes parses a string representation of bytes into the number of bytes it represents.

See Also: Bytes, IBytes.

ParseBytes("42MB") -> 42000000, nil ParseBytes("42mib") -> 44040192, nil

func ParseSI

func ParseSI(input string) (float64, string, error)

ParseSI parses an SI string back into the number and unit.

See also: SI, ComputeSI.

e.g. ParseSI(2.2345pF) -> (2.2345e-12, "F", nil)

func RelTime

func RelTime(a, b time.Time, albl, blbl string) string

RelTime formats a time into a relative string.

It takes two times and two labels. In addition to the generic time delta string (e.g. 5 minutes), the labels are used applied so that the label corresponding to the smaller time is applied.

RelTime(timeInPast, timeInFuture, "earlier", "later") -> "3 weeks earlier"

func SI

func SI(input float64, unit string) string

SI returns a string with default formatting.

SI uses Ftoa to format float value, removing trailing zeros.

See also: ComputeSI, ParseSI.

e.g. SI(1000000, B) -> 1MB e.g. SI(2.2345e-12, "F") -> 2.2345pF

func Time

func Time(then time.Time) string

Time formats a time into a relative string.

Time(someT) -> "3 weeks ago"