1Words2Nums(3)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        Words2Nums(3)
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NAME

6       Lingua::EN::Words2Nums - convert English text to numbers
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SYNOPSIS

9        use Lingua::EN::Words2Nums;
10        $num=words2nums("two thousand and one");
11        $num=words2nums("twenty-second");
12        $num=words2nums("15 billion, 6 million, and ninteen");
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DESCRIPTION

15       This module converts English text into numbers. It supports both
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18       The main subroutine, which is exported by default, is words2nums().
19       This subroutine, when fed a string, will attempt to convert it into a
20       number.  If it succeeds, the number will be returned. If it fails, it
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VARIABLES

24       There are a number of variables that can be used to tweak the behavior
25       of this module. For example, debugging can be be enabled by setting
26       $Lingua::EN::Words2Nums::debug=1
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28       $Lingua::EN::Words2Nums::debug
29           Default: 0. If set to a true value, outputs on standard error some
30           useful messages if parsing fails for some reason.
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32       $Lingua::EN::Words2Nums::billion
33           Default: 10 ** 9. This is the number that will be returned for "one
34           billion".  It defaults to the American version; the English will
35           want to set it to 10 ** 12. Setting this number automatically
36           changes all the larger numbers (trillion, quadrillion, etc) to
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NOTES

40       It does not understand decimals or fractions, yet.
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42       Scores are supported, eg: "four score and ten". So are dozens. So is a
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45       Various mispellings of numbers are understood.
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47       While it handles googol correctly, googolplex is too large to fit in
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AUTHOR

51       Copyright 2001-2003 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
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53       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
54       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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58perl v5.28.1                      2008-12-16                     Words2Nums(3)
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