Re: converting numeric into words

This is a VERY common problem given in school while learning programming.
Basically, you build 3 arrays.

"One" "Two" "Three" "Four" "Five" "Six" "Seven" "Eight" "Nine" "Ten" "Eleven"
"Twelve" "Thirteen" "Fourteen" "Fifteen" "Sixteen" "Seventeen" "Eighteen"
"Nineteen"

"*BLANK" "Twenty" "Thirty" "Forty" "Fifty" "Sixty" "Seventy" "Eighty" "Ninety"

"Hundred"
"Thousand"
"Million"

And it's a lot of comparing.  Take any given number, 12,345.67.
You start at the left, which is the 10 thousands place.  Take the next digit
also, so you have "12".  It's under 20, so is one of the first 19 numbers, it's
the
12th one in fact, which is "Twelve".  It is in the thousands place, so you add
"thousand".  Take the next digit over, the hundreds place.  Take it alone, it is
"3" so you add "Three" and "Hundred".  Take the next 2 characters, the 10's and
1's place.  It's over 20, so you need to add 2 words.  the first is "4"  so it 
is
the
4th in our 10's characters, or "Forty".  Take the last digit, 5 and add "Five"
Add the word "And"
Then take the cents, 67, is over 20, so take the 6th 10's place string, "Sixty"
and add
the 1's column, "Seven".  And "cents" to the end.

"Twelve thousand Three Hundred Forty Five And Sixty Seven cents"

And you have to look for any special cases too.  Remember to ignore 0's in
some cases but not all.  Ignore 0's after 100 (say "One Hundred") but not
in 10 (say "Ten" not "One").

Have fun.

Regards,

Jim Langston

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:

> Nah, don't let him off that easy.  He has to say the thousands, hundreds,
> and tens&teens, too
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> Just say "One Five Zero and two five cents". All you do is load your
> amount
> into an array and check each element replacing the number with a word by
> using the number as an index to another array (or a SELECT group if you
> prefer).
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