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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:52:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: [LANG] support for k, M suffices when parsing numbers
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:50 AM, James Carman <james@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > FWIW, this type of code lives in Ant as long
> > org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils#parseHumanSizes(String).  IMO it
> > would be fine to copy/adapt this method into lang3 in perhaps
> > StringUtils or NumberUtils.  No harm in creating MemUtils as James
> > suggested, but unless we can think of other things to go there I don't
> > know if it can be justified.
> >
>
> I would also suggest a method that takes a long and spits out a string
> with the biggest denomination (kb, mb, gb, etc.) it can find to
> display it.
>
> If it doesn't go in its own class, where else would you put it?
> Perhaps StringUtils or NumberUtils?  Maybe even SystemUtils, since
> there are memory-related methods in System?
>

I like MemUtils so far.

Gary

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