Re: s2hms

[Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>]

Marc Chantreux wrote:

> you don't need the $data buffer as you can
> read directly in varibles. my (untested)
> version should be more like

local secs=${1?duration in seconds} it= out=

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Also, what's with the strange chars: \240 two times?

> s2hms () {
> 	# clean error message when no argument passed
> 	local secs=${1?duration in seconds} it= out=
> 	local -a fields=( h m s )
> 	local -A duration
>
> 	# duration\[$^fields] is a short for
> 	# duration\[h]duration\[m] duration\[s]
>
> 	units -t $secs\s hms |
> 		IFS=\; read duration\[$^fields]
>
>
> 	# use mathematical context to do math
> 	# also: a value is 0 or >0 so just test if it's >0
>
> 	for it ($fields)
> 		(( duration[it])) && out+="$duration[$it]$it"
>
> 	print $out
> }

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