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Test if a value is a duration string.
To use in Observable,
isDurationString = require( 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/assert-is-duration-string@umd/browser.js' )
To vendor stdlib functionality and avoid installing dependency trees for Node.js, you can use the UMD server build:
var isDurationString = require( 'path/to/vendor/umd/assert-is-duration-string/index.js' )
To include the bundle in a webpage,
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/assert-is-duration-string@umd/browser.js"></script>
If no recognized module system is present, access bundle contents via the global scope:
<script type="text/javascript">
(function () {
window.isDurationString;
})();
</script>
Tests if a value
is a duration string
.
var bool = isDurationString( '1d' );
// returns true
bool = isDurationString( '1d2h' );
// returns true
-
The function validates that a
value
is astring
. For all other types, the function returnsfalse
. -
A duration string is a string containing a sequence of time units. A time unit is a nonnegative integer followed by a unit identifier. The following unit identifiers are supported:
d
: daysh
: hoursm
: minutess
: secondsms
: milliseconds
For example, the string
1m3s10ms
is a duration string containing three time units:1m
(1 minute),3s
(3 seconds), and10ms
(10 milliseconds). The string60m
is a duration string containing a single time unit:60m
(60 minutes). Time units must be supplied in descending order of magnitude (i.e., days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds). -
Duration strings are case insensitive. For example, the string
1M3S10MS
is equivalent to1m3s10ms
.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/assert-is-duration-string@umd/browser.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function () {
var bool = isDurationString( '1h' );
// returns true
bool = isDurationString( '1m20ms' );
// returns true
bool = isDurationString( '1d 2h 3m 4s' );
// returns false
bool = isDurationString( 'beep' );
// returns false
bool = isDurationString( null );
// returns false
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.
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