NAME

Lingua::EN::Numbers - turn "407" into "four hundred and seven", etc.

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::EN::Numbers qw(num2en num2en_ordinal);

  my $x = 234;
  my $y = 54;
  print "You have ", num2en($x), " things to do today!\n";
  print "You will stop caring after the ", num2en_ordinal($y), ".\n";

prints:

  You have two hundred and thirty-four things to do today!
  You will stop caring after the fifty-fourth.

DESCRIPTION

Lingua::EN::Numbers turns numbers into English text. It exports (upon request) two functions, num2en and num2en_ordinal. Each takes a scalar value and returns a scalar value. The return value is the English text expressing that number; or if what you provided wasn't a number, then they return undef.

This module can handle integers like "12" or "-3" and real numbers like "53.19".

This module also understands exponential notation -- it turns "4E9" into "four times ten to the ninth"). And it even turns "INF", "-INF", "NaN" into "infinity", "negative infinity", and "not a number", respectively.

Any commas in the input numbers are ignored.

LEGACY INTERFACE

For some amount of backward compatability with the old (before 1.01) version of this module, the old OO interface is supported, where you can construct a number object with new([optionalvalue]), change its value with parse(value), and get its Engish expression with get_string().

The rest of the old version's interface (like $Lingua::EN::Numbers::MODE and the other $Lingua::EN::Numbers::ALLCAPS variables) are no longer supported. This is not a great loss, as much of that stuff never worked right in the first place.

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (perlgpl).

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(But if you have any problems with this library, I ask that you let me know.)

AUTHOR

Sean M. Burke, sburke@cpan.org

(The author of the 0.01 version was Stephen Pandich.)

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