Numbers to words???

[Greg White]

Hi everyone,


Does anyone know of a utility that will convert amounts to the spelled out form? For example, 1234.56 to "One thousand thirty-four and 56/100 "?. I obviously need this for a check writing script.

Thanks in advance, Greg

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Greg:

I remember doing this for someone a few months ago. I provided a C example and also a Perl script that would do just this operation. If you are not a Perl type guy, I could probably spend about two minutes yanking the sunroutine out and driving it with command line arguments.
Anyway, search the Forums for 'english_numbers' and I'm sure you will find the thread. Others may have already looked this up but I don't (or almost never) do searches. I leave that to you.

Regards, Clay

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Here's the thread that Clay is talking about.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa0af03bbece8d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Greg:

I spent a couple of minutes adding a command line parser. It also deals with the problem of supplying amounts with commas.
e.g. 1,234.56 won't kill it because it strips the commas before outputting. Here's the drill:
english.pl 1,234.56 output "One thousand thirty-four and 56/100". One input argument - one output argument BUT if you supply it with mulltiplr ags you get your argument and the words on one line and the next pair on the next lines.

Enjoy, Clay

[Greg White]

Thanks guys! This was just what I needed and I even saw how to put the commas in the numbers. I love this place.

Thank you, Greg