Perl module for parsing natural language time duration specifications (similar to the "at" command)?
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I'm writing a perl script that takes a "duration" option, and I'd like to be able to specify this duration in a fairly flexible manner, as opposed to only taking a single unit (e.g. number of seconds). The UNIX at
command implements this kind of behavior, by allowing specifications such as "now + 3 hours + 2 days". For my program, the "now" part is implied, so I just want to parse the stuff after the plus sign. (Note: the at
command also parses exact date specifications, but I only want to parse durations.)
Is there a perl module for parsing duration specifications like this? I don't need the exact syntax accepted by at
, just any reasonable syntax for specifying time durations.
Edit: Basically, I want something like DateTime::Format::Flexible for durations instead of dates.
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