Is there a method in Sitecore's utilities to format a numerical file size in a friendly way?

Question

The title pretty much says it all. I feel like I've come across a method in the past that does something like:

long fileSize = 524288000;
string prettyFileSize = Sitecore.SomeUtility.ConvertPrettyFileSize(fileSize);

Resulting in prettyFileSize containing "512MB".

Answer 1

You are correct, you probably have come across this. The Sitecore.StringUtil, Sitecore.Kernel class contains a number of methods for managing strings.

The two methods in particular are:

StringUtil.GetSizeString(long size)

This method takes in a long value 524288000, and returns a string representation of "512MB"

StringUtil.ParseSizeString(string value)

This method takes in a string value like "512MB" and returns the long representation of that size, 524288000.

An Example:

    using Sitecore;

    public long GetLongValue(string valueSize)
    {
       return StringUtil.ParseSizeString(valueSize);
    }

    public string GetStringSize(long size)
    {
       return StringUtil.GetSizeString(size);
    }