Amount in words

[marek.h...@interia.pl]

Hi
I have a specific question for Claudia. In file /harbour/contrib/hbnf/ntow.prg is code which returns amount in English words. Have you such algorithm, but with the German lexicon?

Regards,
Marek Horodyski

[elch]

Hi Marek,

i'm not Claudia ;-) but maybe can help out.
--and needed a bit relaxing fun for my afternoon .. :-)

Germans count reverse ;-) -- the don't say: twenty-one, but: one and twenty.

The detail in front, big units thrown afterwards.

Further they group all below one thousand together, hundreds in front of the

details, and then name the 10 ^ 3 unit afterwards.

In the attached 'afternoon fun' are two versions of the names for numbers.

Some contain special char above ASCI 127, so called 'Umlaute' with two dots

above -- they are spoken and can be written like appending an 'e'. Example:

'ö' = 'oe'.

But depending on codepage, they maybe displayed wrong -- so if you want with

'Umlaute', change the '#if 0' to a '1' ...

Further like to spell big numbers, especially for that such is good -- so i

wrote a sol10() without using hb_ntos(). Because Harbour can handle very ! big

numbers, then only loosing the precision in the lower than 16 digits once the

number got bigger than 19 digits, or to be precise: > 9223372036854775807

First test looks quite ok me, if you want to counterproof or add bigger number

names: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahlennamen

That was what you searched for ??

At least good for my fun ... :-)

best regards

Rolf

[elch]

addendum:

one little typo left with the not tested branch:

"Zwannzig" is wrong with double 'n' -- "Zwanzig" correct.

[ was too fast typing ... ;-) ]

You sure can easy correct this ...

best regards

Rolf

[marek.h...@interia.pl]

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Thanks. It's not for me. Send to someone, let them try.

Regards,

Marek Horodyski