Human Format

Rust Port of human-format from node, formatting numbers for us, while the machines are still at bay

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Human Format

human_format provides facilitates creating a formatted string, converting between numbers that are beyond typical needs for humans into a simpler string that conveys the gist of the meaning of the number.

Setup

Add the library to your dependencies listing

[dependencies]
human_format = "0.2"

Add the crate reference at your crate root

extern crate human_format;

Print some human readable strings

// "1.00 k"
let tmpStr = human_format::Formatter::new()
    .format(1000.0);

// "1.00 M"
let tmpStr2 = human_format::Formatter::new()
    .format(1000000.0);

// "1.00 B"
let tmpStr3 = human_format::Formatter::new()
    .format(1000000000.0);

If you are so inspired you can even try playing with units and customizing your Scales

For more examples you should review the examples on github: tests/demo.rs