libapa...:String(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is APR::String — it's the Perl API for messing with APR UUIDs 💅 (yes bestie, the NAME line says UUIDs, we don't question the ancestors, we just vibe)

it's from libapa...:String(3pm), the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the internet 🫶

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🌸 Synopsis 🌸

like, the tiniest taste of the vibe:

use APR::String ();

# 42_000 => " 41K",
my $size_str = APR::String::format_size($size);

see how 42_000 turns into " 41K"? that's the whole little magic trick, and honestly? iconic 🎀

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🦋 Description 🦋

APR::String provides strings manipulation API. that's it, that's the description, short and sweet, she said what she said ✨

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💖 API 💖

APR::String provides the following functions and/or methods:

🍓 format_size

my $size_str = APR::String::format_size($size);

• arg1: $size ( integer ) — the number you're feeding in, in its raw numeric form 💅
• ret: $size_str — this gives you back a formatted size string representation of a number. the size given in the string will be in units of bytes, kilobytes, or megabytes, depending on how big the size is. and here's the cute little constraint: the length of that string is always 4 chars long. always. no exceptions. for example:

0               => "  0 ",
42              => " 42 ",
42_000          => " 41K",
42_000_000      => " 40M",

• since: 2.0.00 ⭐

lowkey obsessed with the fact that it rounds to 41K and 40M, no cap, that's just what it does 🫶

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👑 See Also 👑

• mod_perl 2.0 documentation.

(the classic "go read the docs, bestie" move 💀)

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🌈 Copyright 🌈

mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

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💜 Authors 💜

The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors.

like, a whole group chat of legends fr fr 👑

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and that's a wrap! this page came to you courtesy of perl v5.42.3 💅 dated 2026-08-20, filed under libapa...:String(3pm) — stan a manpage that knows exactly what it is, periodt 🎀✨