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, . 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.