Implement the FromStr trait for ByteSize #20
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A use case I came around when I wanted the user to provide a ByteSize in my program CLI arguments and using a argument parser like structopt or argh or gumdrop.
Allows parsing a string directly into a ByteSize:
I'm bad at writing negative test cases though.
Short example of a binary using structopt taking a size as a command line argument:
PS: the two
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lifetime markers I removed because of clippy's suggestion