Time::Duration::Parse(User Contributed Perl DocumentatTime::Duration::Parse(3)NAMETime::Duration::Parse - Parse string that represents time duration
SYNOPSIS
use Time::Duration::Parse;
my $seconds = parse_duration("2 minutes and 3 seconds"); # 123
DESCRIPTIONTime::Duration::Parse is a module to parse human readable duration
strings like 2 minutes and 3 seconds to seconds.
It does the opposite of duration_exact function in Time::Duration and
is roundtrip safe. So, the following is always true.
use Time::Duration::Parse;
use Time::Duration;
my $seconds = int rand 100000;
is( parse_duration(duration_exact($seconds)), $seconds );
FUNCTIONS
parse_duration
$seconds = parse_duration($string);
Parses duration string and returns seconds. When it encounters an
error in a given string, it dies an exception saying "Unknown
timespec: blah blah blah". This function is exported by default.
AUTHOR
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
COPYRIGHT
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
Some internal code is taken from Cache and Cache::Cache modules on
CPAN.
SEE ALSO
Date::Manip, DateTime::Format::Duration,
<http://use.perl.org/~miyagawa/journal/30310>
POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
below:
Around line 91:
You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'
perl v5.14.1 2008-05-30 Time::Duration::Parse(3)
