Crate dactyl

Dactyl

This crate provides a fast interface to “stringify” unsigned integers, formatted with commas at each thousand. It prioritizes speed and simplicity over configurability.

If your application just wants to quickly turn 1010 into "1,010", Dactyl is a great choice. If your application requires locale awareness or other options, something like num-format would probably make more sense.

Similar to itoa, Dactyl writes ASCII conversions to a temporary buffer, but does so using fixed arrays sized for each type’s maximum value, minimizing the allocation overhead for, say, tiny little u8s.

Each type has its own struct, each of which works exactly the same way:

• NiceU8
• NiceU16
• NiceU32
• NiceU64 (also covers usize)
• NiceFloat
• NiceClock (for durations)
• NiceElapsed (also for durations)
• NicePercent (for floats representing percentages)

The intended use case is to simply call the appropriate from() for the type, then use either the as_str() or as_bytes() struct methods to retrieve the output in the desired format. Each struct also implements traits like Deref, Display, AsRef<str>, AsRef<[u8]>, etc., if you prefer those.

use dactyl::NiceU16;

assert_eq!(NiceU16::from(11234_u16).as_str(), "11,234");
assert_eq!(NiceU16::from(11234_u16).as_bytes(), b"11,234");

But the niceness doesn’t stop there. Dactyl provides several other structs, methods, and traits to performantly work with integers, such as:

• NoHash: a passthrough hasher for integer HashSet/HashMap collections
• traits::BytesToSigned: signed integer parsing from byte slices
• traits::BytesToUnsigned: unsigned integer parsing from byte slices
• traits::HexToSigned: signed integer parsing from hex
• traits::HexToUnsigned: unsigned integer parsing from hex

Modules

traits

Dactyl: Traits

Macros

total_cmp

“Total” Float Comparison.

Structs

NiceClock

Nice Clock.

NiceElapsed

This is a very simple struct for efficiently converting a given number of seconds (u32) into a nice, human-readable Oxford-joined byte string, like 3 hours, 2 minutes, and 1 second.

Enums

FloatKind

Float Type.

Type Aliases

NiceFloat

NiceFloat provides a quick way to convert an f32 or f64 (up to the absolute equivalent of u64::MAX) into a formatted byte string for e.g. printing.

NicePercent

NicePercent provides a quick way to convert an f32 or f64 percent — a value 0.0..=1.0 — into a formatted byte string for e.g. printing.

NiceU8

NiceU8 provides a quick way to convert a u8 into a formatted byte string for e.g. printing.

NiceU16

NiceU16 provides a quick way to convert a u16 into a formatted byte string for e.g. printing. Commas are added for every thousand.

NiceU32

NiceU32 provides a quick way to convert a u32 into a formatted byte string for e.g. printing. Commas are added for every thousand.

NiceU64

NiceU64 provides a quick way to convert a u64 into a formatted byte string for e.g. printing. Commas are added for every thousand.

NoHash

No-Hash (Passthrough) Hash State.