From: Andrei Maxim <andrei@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T22:21:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert words to numbers and back?

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I think the OP wants to know how he could turn 3 into "three" or 2001 into
"two thousand and one".

On 11/24/07, saladin.mundi@gmx.de <saladin.mundi@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> I don't know exactly what you mean.
> Do you have something like: "123"  <- a String which you want to conert
> into
> an integer? like 123 ?
>
> if so, there are these functions:
>
> str.to_i(base=10) => integer
>
> Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in str as an integer
> base base (2, 8, 10, or 16). Extraneous characters past the end of a valid
> number are ignored. If there is not a valid number at the start of str, 0
> is
> returned. This method never raises an exception.
>
>    "12345".to_i             #=> 12345
>    "99 red balloons".to_i   #=> 99
>    "0a".to_i                #=> 0
>    "0a".to_i(16)            #=> 10
>    "hello".to_i             #=> 0
>    "1100101".to_i(2)        #=> 101
>    "1100101".to_i(8)        #=> 294977
>    "1100101".to_i(10)       #=> 1100101
>    "1100101".to_i(16)       #=> 17826049
> orstr.to_f => floatReturns the result of interpreting leading characters
> in
> str as a floating point number. Extraneous characters past the end of a
> valid number are ignored. If there is not a valid number at the start of
> str, 0.0 is returned. This method never raises an exception.
> "123.45e1".to_f        #=> 1234.5
>    "45.67 degrees".to_f   #=> 45.67
>    "thx1138".to_f         #=> 0.0
> bye sala----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrei Maxim" <andrei@andreimaxim.ro>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Convert words to numbers and back?
>
>
> > Check http://www.deveiate.org/projects/Linguistics/
> > I think numwords is what you are looking for.
> >
> > On 11/24/07, Jordon Bedwell <jordon@envygeeks.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was wondering if somebody could give me some insight and help on how
> >> to convert words to numbers and back again. Maybe a function?
> >> --
> >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >>
> >>
> > --
> > Andrei Maxim
> > http://andreimaxim.ro
> >
>
>
>


-- 
Andrei Maxim
http://andreimaxim.ro

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