NAME

Lingua::EN::Fractions - convert "3/4" into "three quarters", etc

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::EN::Fractions qw/ fraction2words /;

my $fraction = '3/4';
my $as_words = fraction2words($fraction);

Or using Number::Fraction:

use Number::Fraction;

my $fraction = Number::Fraction->new(2, 7);
my $as_words = fraction2words($fraction);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a function, fraction2words, which takes a string containing a fraction and returns the English phrase for that fraction. If no fraction was found in the input, then undef is returned.

For example

fraction2words('1/2');    # "one half"
fraction2words('3/4');    # "three quarters"
fraction2words('5/17');   # "five seventeenths"
fraction2words('5');      # undef
fraction2words('-3/5');   # "minus three fifths"

You can also pass in a fraction represented using Number::Fraction:

$fraction = Number::Fraction->new(2, 7);
$as_words = fraction2words($fraction);    # "two sevenths"

At the moment, no attempt is made to simplify the fraction, so '5/2' will return "five halves" rather than "two and a half".

At the moment it's not very robust to weird inputs. I may add support for Unicode fractions as well.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::EN::Numbers, Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate, Lingua::EN::Numbers::Years - other modules for converting numbers into words.

Number::Fraction - a class for representing fractions and operations on them.

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/neilbowers/Lingua-EN-Fractions

AUTHOR

Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>

This module was suggested by Sean Burke, who created the other Lingua::EN::* modules that I now maintain.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.