NAME

Lingua::EN::FindNumber - Locate (written) numbers in English text

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::EN::FindNumber;
  my $text = "Fourscore and seven years ago, our four fathers...";

  numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."

  @numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"

  while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator
  

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a regular expression for finding numbers in English text. It also provides functions for extracting and manipulating such numbers.

EXPORTED METHODS

extract_numbers / numify / $number_re

  numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."

  @numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"

  while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator
  

SEE ALSO

This module was written for the Natural Languages chapter of the second edition of Advanced Perl Programming. If you liked the module, why not buy the book?

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004567/tmtm-20

This module works rather well in conjunction with Lingua::EN::Words2Nums, which is a very cool module anyway. (And I stole some of this module's code from it. Thanks, Joey!) It may also be involved with Lingua::EN::NamedEntity in the future, so check that one out too.

AUTHOR

Current maintainer: Tony Bowden

Original author: Simon Cozens

BUGS and QUERIES

Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to: bug-Lingua-EN-Number@rt.cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003-2005 by Simon Cozens

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.