@lesjoursfr/human-interval v1.0.4

@lesjoursfr/human-interval

Human-readable interval parser for Javascript. Converts words written in English to numbers by using node-numbered.

This is a fork of @rschmukler project human-interval

Installation

On the server or in the browser:

npm install @lesjoursfr/human-interval

Example usage

humanInterval("three minutes");

More sophisticated examples

Human Interval understands all of the following examples:

humanInterval("minute");
humanInterval("one minute");
humanInterval("1.5 minutes");
humanInterval("3 days and 4 hours");
humanInterval("3 days, 4 hours and 36 seconds");
humanInterval("4 months, 3 days, 5 hours and forty-five seconds");

The full list

Units

Supports the following units in the plural and singular forms:

• seconds
• minutes
• hours
• days
• weeks
• months — assumes 30 days
• years — assumes 365 days

Wordy numbers

Supports numbers being written out in English words.

humanInterval("five minutes");

Hyphenated numbers

Supports hyphenated numbers.

humanInterval("twenty-five seconds");

Negative numbers

Supports negative numbers if the time starts with a - symbol immediately followed by a number.

humanInterval("-2 minutes");

API

humanInterval(str)

Return the number of milliseconds from a str interval.

Tests

To run the tests, you'll need Node.js:

npm install
npm run test