how to convert number to word in ruby on rails

[INDRANIL MUKHERJEE]

I m fade up with searching the code to convert number to word in
ruby .I found several of them but nothing worked right.please help me

[sanjib dhar]

class Fixnum
def english_word
@h = {0=>"zero", 1=>"One", 2=>"Two", 3=>"Three",
4=>"Four", 5=>"Five",6=>"six", 7=>"seven", 8=>"Eight",
9=>"Nine",10=>"Ten",11=>"Eleven",12=>"Twelve",
13=>"Thirteen",14=>"Fourteen",15=>"Fifteen",
16=>"Sixteen",17=>"Seventeen",18=>"Eighteen",
19=>"Nineteen",20=>"Twenty",30=>"Thirty",
40=>"Fourty",50=>"Fifty",60=>"Sixty",70=>"Seventy",
80=>"Eighty",90=>"Ninty"}
@i=0
@array=[]
@result=""a
if self > 99
str_num=self.to_s #@num.to_s
str_num_len=str_num.length
str_full_num=str_num.insert(0,"0"*(11-str_num_len))
str_full_num=str_num.insert(8,"0")
str_full_num.scan(/../) { |x| @array<<x }
6.times do
self.def_calc
@i+=1
end
else
if self > 9
puts
(self.proc_double_dig((self/10)*10))+
(self.proc_single_dig(self%10))
else
if self > 0
puts self.proc_single_dig(self)
else
return "AMOUNT NOT KNOWN or NILL"
end
end
end
end

def def_calc
case @i
when 0
str=self.proc_unit(@array[@i])
if (str.scan(/\w+/)).length!=0
then str=str+ "hundred & "
@result=@result+str
end
when 1
str=self.proc_unit(@array[@i])
if (str.scan(/\w+/)).length!=0
then str=str+ " Crore, "
@result=@result+str
end
when 2
str=self.proc_unit(@array[@i])
if (str.scan(/\w+/)).length!=0
then str=str+ " Lakh, "
@result=@result+str
end
when 3
str=self.proc_unit(@array[@i])
if (str.scan(/\w+/)).length!=0
then str=str+ " Thousand, "
@result=@result+str
end
when 4
str=self.proc_unit(@array[@i])
if (str.scan(/\w+/)).length!=0
then str=str+ " Hundred, "
@result=@result+str
end
when 5
str=self.proc_unit(@array[@i])
if (str.scan(/\w+/)).length!=0
then str=str+ ". "
@result=@result+str
end
print @result.sub(/..$/,"")
else
end
end

def proc_unit(x)
if x.to_i>0
if x.to_i<=10
return self.proc_single_dig(x.to_i)
else
if x.to_i<=20
return self.proc_double_dig(x.to_i)
else
return
(self.proc_double_dig((x.to_i/10)*10))+
(self.proc_single_dig(x.to_i%10))
end
end
end
return ""
end

def proc_double_dig(z)
if z==0
return ""
else
return @h[z]
end
end

def proc_single_dig(y)
if y==0
return ""
else
return @h[y]
end
end
protected :def_calc, :proc_unit, :proc_double_dig,
:proc_single_dig

end

puts 453645445.english_word

#FourtyFive Crore, Thirtysix Lakh, FourtyFive Thousand,
Four Hundred,FourtyFive

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:56 PM, INDRANIL MUKHERJEE <indranil...@gmail.com> wrote:

I m fade up with searching the code to convert number to word in
ruby .I found several of them but nothing worked right.please help me

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[Steve Elliott]

Check out Chris Pine's Book -- Learn to Program from the Pragmatic
Programmers He has an English Number example in there:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=08

def englishNumber number
if number < 0 # No negative numbers.
return 'Please enter a number that isn\'t negative.'
end
if number == 0
return 'zero'
end

# No more special cases! No more returns!

numString = '' # This is the string we will return.

onesPlace = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five',
'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine']
tensPlace = ['ten', 'twenty', 'thirty', 'forty',
'fifty',
'sixty', 'seventy', 'eighty', 'ninety']
teenagers = ['eleven', 'twelve', 'thirteen', 'fourteen',
'fifteen',
'sixteen', 'seventeen', 'eighteen', 'nineteen']

# "left" is how much of the number we still have left to write out.
# "write" is the part we are writing out right now.
# write and left... get it? :)
left = number
write = left/100 # How many hundreds left to write out?
left = left - write*100 # Subtract off those hundreds.

if write > 0
# Now here's a really sly trick:
hundreds = englishNumber write
numString = numString + hundreds + ' hundred'
# That's called "recursion". So what did I just do?
# I told this method to call itself, but with "write" instead of
# "number". Remember that "write" is (at the moment) the number
of
# hundreds we have to write out. After we add "hundreds" to
"numString",
# we add the string ' hundred' after it. So, for example, if
# we originally called englishNumber with 1999 (so "number" =
1999),
# then at this point "write" would be 19, and "left" would be 99.
# The laziest thing to do at this point is to have englishNumber
# write out the 'nineteen' for us, then we write out ' hundred',
# and then the rest of englishNumber writes out 'ninety-nine'.

if left > 0
# So we don't write 'two hundredfifty-one'...
numString = numString + ' '
end
end

write = left/10 # How many tens left to write out?
left = left - write*10 # Subtract off those tens.

if write > 0
if ((write == 1) and (left > 0))
# Since we can't write "tenty-two" instead of "twelve",
# we have to make a special exception for these.
numString = numString + teenagers[left-1]
# The "-1" is because teenagers[3] is 'fourteen', not
'thirteen'.

# Since we took care of the digit in the ones place already,
# we have nothing left to write.
left = 0
else
numString = numString + tensPlace[write-1]
# The "-1" is because tensPlace[3] is 'forty', not 'thirty'.
end

if left > 0
# So we don't write 'sixtyfour'...
numString = numString + '-'
end
end

write = left # How many ones left to write out?
left = 0 # Subtract off those ones.

if write > 0
numString = numString + onesPlace[write-1]
# The "-1" is because onesPlace[3] is 'four', not 'three'.
end

# Now we just return "numString"...
numString
end

puts englishNumber( 0)
puts englishNumber( 9)
puts englishNumber( 10)
puts englishNumber( 11)
puts englishNumber( 17)
puts englishNumber( 32)
puts englishNumber( 88)
puts englishNumber( 99)
puts englishNumber(100)
puts englishNumber(101)
puts englishNumber(234)
puts englishNumber(3211)
puts englishNumber(999999)
puts englishNumber(1000000000000)