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Re: The Definitive Unit Conversion Scriptby mojotoad (Monsignor) |
on Dec 13, 2002 at 19:48 UTC ( [id://219724]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I was interested in tye's quip about dealing with unit specifications such as 'kg/m/m' vs 'kg/m^2'...so I started digging around on CPAN for tokenizers that might assist in normalizing unit representations. There's some infix/postfix stuff, as well as various tokenizers such as Math::Expr that might be of assistance here.
Perhaps more importantly, there's some unit conversion modules already out there that might bear further scrutiny:
Math::Units Of these, the Convert-Units bundle seems to be on the money, since in the author's words:
Hope these are of assistance. At the very least, you can mine the modules for conversion tables! Matt
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