parse_size

Parse a given byte count.

Parameters

$size: A size expressed as a number of bytes with optional SI size and unit suffix (e.g. 2, 3K, 5MB, 10G).

Return value

An integer representation of the size.

Related topics

Formatting

Functions to format numbers, strings, dates, etc.

3 calls to parse_size()

File

includes/common.inc, line 1258

Common functions that many Drupal modules will need to reference.

Code

function parse_size($size) {
  $suffixes = array(
    '' => 1, 
    'k' => 1024, 
    'm' => 1048576, // 1024 * 1024 
    'g' => 1073741824, // 1024 * 1024 * 1024
  );
  if (preg_match('/([0-9]+)\s*(k|m|g)?(b?(ytes?)?)/i', $size, $match)) {
    return $match[1] * $suffixes[drupal_strtolower($match[2])];
  }
}