Is there a way (without coding explicitly) to display a number using the metric prefixes?

Question

This question is relaetd to This question, on using some of the windows explorer features automatically inside a Delphi application.

Is there a way to format an integer using the metrix prefixes automatically in Delphi? Somehow to automatically obtain a result like windows explorer gives? I mean converting 1024 to 1.0 K automatically.

let's say something like

FormatMetric('FileSize = %d', [26112], 1,'B')
// where the third parameter is the number of decimal digits
// and the fourth is the string that is appended

will return

25.5 KB

Of course I can code this, but is there in the RTL something like this?

Answer 1

You need the Windows API call StrFormatByteSizeA.

See the msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb759974%28VS.85%29.aspx