NAME

Lingua::Any::Numbers - Converts numbers into (any available language) string.

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Any::Numbers qw(:std);
printf "Available languages are: %s\n", join( ", ", available );
printf "%s\n", to_string(  45 );
printf "%s\n", to_ordinal( 45 );

or test all available languages

use Lingua::Any::Numbers qw(:std);
foreach my $lang ( available ) {
   printf "%s\n", to_string(  45, $lang );
   printf "%s\n", to_ordinal( 45, $lang );
}

DESCRIPTION

The most popular Lingua modules are seem to be the ones that convert numbers into words. These kind of modules exist for a lot of languages. However, there is no standard interface defined for them. Most of the modules' interfaces are completely different and some do not implement the ordinal conversion at all. Lingua::Any::Numbers tries to create a common interface to call these different modules. And if a module has a known interface, but does not implement the required function/method then the number itself is returned instead of dying. It is also possible to take advantage of the automatic locale detection if you install all the supported modules listed in the "SEE ALSO" section.

IMPORT PARAMETERS

All functions and aliases can be imported individually, but there are some pre-defined import tags:

:all        Import everything (including aliases)
:standard   available(), to_string(), to_ordinal().
:std        Alias to :standard
:standard2  available_languages(), to_string(), to_ordinal()
:std2       Alias to :standard2
:long       available_languages(), number_to_string(), number_to_ordinal()

IMPORT PRAGMAS

Some parameters enable/disable module features. + is prefixed to enable these options. Pragmas have global effect (i.e.: not lexical), they can not be disabled afterwards.

locale

Use the language from system locale:

use Lingua::Any::Numbers qw(:std +locale);
print to_string(81); # will use locale

However, the second parameter to the functions take precedence. If the language parameter is used, locale pragma will be discarded.

Install all the Lingua::*::Numbers modules to take advantage of the locale pragma.

It is also possible to enable locale usage through the functions. See "FUNCTIONS".

locale is implemented with I18N::LangTags::Detect.

FUNCTIONS

All language parameters (LANG) have a default value: EN. If it is set to LOCALE, then the language from the system locale will be used (if available).

to_string NUMBER [, LANG ]

Aliases:

num2str

number_to_string

to_ordinal NUMBER [, LANG ]

Aliases:

num2ord

number_to_ordinal

available

Returns a list of available language ids.

Aliases:

available_langs

available_languages

DEBUGGING

SILENT

If you define a sub named Lingua::Any::Numbers::SILENT and return a true value from that, then the module will not generate any warnings when it faces some recoverable errors.

Lingua::Any::Numbers::SILENT is not defined by default.

CAVEATS

• Some modules return UTF8, while others return arbitrary encodings. ascii is ok, but others will be problematic. A future release can convert all to UTF8.

• All available modules will immediately be searched and loaded into memory (before using any function).

• No language module (except Lingua::EN::Numbers) is required by Lingua::Any::Numbers, so you'll need to install the other modules manually.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::AF::Numbers
Lingua::BG::Numbers
Lingua::EN::Numbers
Lingua::EU::Numbers
Lingua::FR::Numbers
Lingua::HU::Numbers
Lingua::IT::Numbers
Lingua::JA::Numbers
Lingua::NL::Numbers
Lingua::PL::Numbers
Lingua::TR::Numbers
Lingua::ZH::Numbers

Lingua::CS::Num2Word
Lingua::DE::Num2Word
Lingua::ES::Numeros
Lingua::ID::Nums2Words
Lingua::NO::Num2Word
Lingua::PT::Nums2Word
Lingua::SV::Num2Word

BOGUS MODULES

Some modules on CPAN suggest to convert numbers into words by their names, but they do something different instead. Here is a list of the bogus modules:

Lingua::FA::Number

SUPPORT

BUG REPORTS

All bug reports and wishlist items must be reported via the CPAN RT system. It is accessible at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Lingua-Any-Numbers.

DISCUSSION FORUM

CPAN::Forum is a place for discussing CPAN modules. It also has a Lingua::Any::Numbers section at http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/Lingua-Any-Numbers.

RATINGS

If you like or hate or have some suggestions about Lingua::Any::Numbers, you can comment/rate the distribution via the CPAN Ratings system: http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Lingua-Any-Numbers.

AUTHOR

Burak Gürsoy, <burak@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2007-2009 Burak Gürsoy. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

cpanm Lingua::Any::Numbers

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Lingua::Any::Numbers