Thread: Changing numbers to words

You want to format a float into currency?

printf("$%.2f", foo);

>> Changing numbers to words <<
What you want to do is loop through the numbers and make the string. A working (probably) example would be:

Code:

/*----------------struct for linked list----------------------*/
struct num {
int num;
struct num *next_num;
};
/*--------------------------------------------------------------*/
char numword[50];
int i;

printf("Enter your number(s): ");
fgets(numword, sizeof(numword), stdin);
numword[strlen(numword)-1] = '\0';

struct num *temp, *head;
temp->next_num = NULL;
head->next_num = NULL;

for (i = 1; i <= strlen(numword); i++)
{
    if (numword[i] != '\0')
    {
        temp->num = numword[i];
        temp->next_num = NULL;

        head->next_num = temp;
        head = head->next_num;
    }

    else 
        break;
}

This code is not tested! But, logically, it is correct. Use a linked list. It is the easiest way.

--Garfield the Programmer

Nonono, you all have it wrong from what I understand...

Let's say the check is for $150, well then they want "One hundred and fifty dollars" to print out along with that.

I'm not quite sure what to do here...maybe you could put the number into an array and try something like...

while(num[i] != '\0')
{
case 1:
strcat(numstring, "One ");
i++;
break;
case 2:
strcat(numstring, "Two ");
i++;
break;

//etc....
}

but the problem with that is it would print out "One Five Zero" instead of "One hundred and fifty"

float num;

int flag = 0;

char szNum[100];

itoa(num, szNum, 10); // convert the whole numbers to string

int len = strlen(szNum);

if(len == 0) /// ERROR!

else if(len == 1) flag = 1;/// must be less than $10

else if(len == 2) flag = 2/// must be $10 - $99 dollars

etc, etc.

Then, since you know the range, you can set up routines for all the possibilities.

switch(flag)
{
case 1:

switch(atoi(szNum[0]))

{
case '1':

strcpy(output, "One ");
strcat(output, "Dollar");

//etc, etc



There are of course much more efficient ways to do it!
But since you posted no code...
see if you can make something work from that?

I'm thinking the only way to do this is sloppy. You know, if (iNum[1] > 0 && iNum[1] <= 9), kind of programming. That seems to be the only solution.

--Garfield

there is a solution to the problem pointed out by KEN.
if the digit to be converted is 0 then do not consider that 0 "for word conversion". For eg, $151 gets converted to one hundred fifty one but $150 would be one hundred and fifty, since we wont be considering the last 0. similarly $1500 would be converted to one thousand five hundred since the last 2 0's wouldn't be considered. and in a similar way $1501 would be one thousand five hundred one. since the 0 in the ten's place will not considered.

cheers,

http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...3433#post23433

Hope this helps.

The night of my last reply, I went home and wrote a function which accomplished the task in about 300 lines of code. I am happy to report that, no longer being a newbie, it took me one hour to write it! Though it does contain some bugs, it otherwise works well.

I'll explain a little of how I approached it:

-First, if the input is a string, erase all whitespace.

-Find the length of the string. This will tell you right away the range of the number.

-Start backwards. That is, assemble the output string starting with the largest values.

-Use strcat frequently!

There will be several tricky manipulations. For instance, when you are processing, say, the "tens" place, you might need to do something like:

Code:

switch(input[i])
{
case '9': strcat(output, "Ninety ");
break;
///continue down the line
case '1': 
   
   ones_place_flag = 0;   /* <--- make sure we don't get a string   that ends up like : " Eighteen Eight Dollars" !!! */
    switch(input[i+1])
 {
    case '9': strcat(output, "Nineteen ");
    break;
// continue on down

...So that when you get to the ones place, you can use the "ones_place flag":

Code:

if(ones_place_flag != 0)
{
switch(input[i])
{
case '9': strcat(ouput, "Nine ");
break;
/// And so on...

You will probably use several of these types of flags....


Anyway, I hope that helped some. Let me know how it goes...