Question

I want to implement a simple unit conversion library for food measurements, ie cups teaspoons. pinch, milliliters, ounces, liters, grams, pounds etc etc etc.
Are there any libraries out there that I can use allready, if not I want to roll my own in the pseudo manner below:

enum Unit
{
    Centimeters = 0,
    Meter = 1,
    Kilometer = 2           
}


//| |           |   0       |  1    |   2       |
//----------------------------------------------
//| |           |Centimeters| Meters| Kilometers|
//----------------------------------------------
//|0|Centimeters|1        | 0.01  | 0.000001  |
//----------------------------------------------
//|1|Meters  |100        | 1      | 1000     |
//----------------------------------------------
//|2|Kilometers |100000     | 1000  | 1         |
//----------------------------------------------


public float Convert(Unit UnitFrom, Unit UnitTo, UnitValue)
{
   float factor = UnitMatrix[UnitFrom][Unit UnitTo];
   return UnitValue * factor;
}

//Usage
Convert(Unit.Kilometers, Unit.Meters, 5)
// Lookup factor in this case would be the one at [2, 1] i.e. 1000 so output is 5000

Pointers, pitfalls, too naive? Any help would be useful.
A current opensource implementation that I can study would be great too.
TIA

Answer 1

@n4rzul, I have started developing an open-source units-of-measurement library in C#, that could easily be extended with any unit of your request. Please have a look at the project website at Github, https://github.com/cureos/csunits, and see if this library meets your needs.