Humanize Count

[timothy-shields]

It seems like there isn't any functionality to humanize a count. Some examples:

0 => "0"
14 => "14"
71004 => "71k"
51000492 => "5m" (lower precision)
51000492 => "5.1m" (higher precision)

It seems very similar to ByteSize (maybe Count?) except you'd have Count.Ones, Count.Hundreds, Count.Thousands, Count.Millions, etc. Count.Humanize(precision) would return the count string at that precision.

Example:

51000492.ToCount().Humanize(1) => "51000492"
51000492.ToCount().Humanize(0.999) => "5.1m"

Does this functionality exist in the library? If not, was it excluded by design? Or has it just not been thought of or implemented?

A good example of this kind of humanization of a count is on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes Note how the views ("673k views", "2.4m views", etc.) look.

[MehdiK]

Thanks for the suggestion @timothy-shields. This feature does not exist because it was never requested.

It would make for a good addition. Did you want to submit a PR? :)

[aloisdg]

Just saw this post. I create exactly the same issue ( #457 ) two days ago. I used the searchbox without success. I should just read the issue list.

Well, I wrote the code to handle this. I will rewrite it and submit a PR.

[aloisdg]

Code rewrote. Test added. PR coming soon. (tomorrow? :)

[clairernovotny]

This was implemented in #459 and is now in dev