Re: Module for file size arithmetic

[rinceWind]

It's probably a sledge hammer to crack a nut, but take a look at Data::Dimensions, which could probably also handle sizes in sectors, tracks and the like, given the parameters for the disk geometry.

[mirod]

My first test gets me a segmentation fault, so I'm not sure...

perl -M'Data::Dimensions qw(:extended &units)' -E'say add( "1.2G", "50
+0M"); \
sub add \
  { my $sum= units( { byte => 0 }); \
    foreach (@_) { $sum += $_ } \
    return  $sum; \
  }\
'