Calculating the size in KBs of a string or variable

any one know how to work out the size of a variable in KBs ?

Hi!

The (perl builtin) length function returns you the length of a string $somestring in bytes .

my $somestring = 'Hi there';

my $num_bytes = length($somestring);

my $num_kbytes = $num_bytes / 1000;


Greetings

Atrus.


P.S.: If you want to know the size of an entire array or hash, you'd have to loop over it, adding up the values of each element..

just a small rewrite of above code:

my $somestring = 'Hi there';

my $num_bytes = length($somestring);

my $num_kbytes = $num_bytes / 1024;
if($num_kbytes > 1){int($num_kbytes);}

my $num_mbytes = $num_kbytes / 1024;
if($num_mbytes > 1){int($num_mbytes,2)}

this would count even megabytes like this: 12.34 mbs

I was getting bored so sorry if you find this funny

Hi!

Of course we don't find that funny

I also apologize for falling for the 1000, 1024 thing without thinking. Thanks for the wake up call


Greetings

Atrus.

hey no problem, I'm glad I came here... I was looking for a decent perl forum since some time ago my ISP canceled comp.lang.perl newsgroup