ToString() with the closest unit?

[aradalvand]

I was expecting UnitsNet to already include this functionality and I'm surprised that it doesn't (if it does and I'm missing something, please let me know).

Consider the following:

var size = Information.FromBytes(10000000);

I want to print size in a human-friendly style. When I do size.ToString(), I get "1e+07 B"; but what I would ideally want is "10 MB", I want it to detect the most reasonable/closest unit it can display the value with, and use that in the string.

Is this not possible? I would think it's a pretty common thing to need to do.

[angularsen]

Hi, there is no support for this. We could offer some basic support I guess to provide a bit more support out of the box, but it would really duplicate some of the efforts that Humanizer already has done. Why not just use Humanizer?

[aradalvand]

Much of Humanizer's functionality when it comes to units overlaps with UnitsNet's, so using both is a bit awkward, I was hoping UnitsNet would have some basic support in this regard.

[angularsen]

If you are interested in attempting a pull request to add this functionality, I'm happy to assist. Let me know.

I don't think it will happen otherwise, I have very limited time to spend on this project.

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