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in reply to GB, MB, KB and on..

sub scaledbytes {
   (sort { length $a <=> length $b }
   map { sprintf '%.3g%s', $_[0]/1024**$_->[1], $_->[0] }
   [" bytes"=>0],[KB=>1],[MB=>2],[GB=>3],[TB=>4],[PB=>5],[EB=>6])[0]
}

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Update: don't need none of those stinkin' semicolons. Feels kind of funny to use %g but filter out all the exponential forms (unless that's all there are).

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Re^2: GB, MB, KB and on..
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 30, 2004 at 04:26 UTC

    Different :)

    One interesting side effect of the sort is that zero length files get listed as 0KB rather than 0 bytes.

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