NAME

Lingua::EN::FindNumber - Locate (written) numbers in English text

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::EN::FindNumber;
my $text = "Fourscore and seven years ago, our four fathers...";

numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."

@numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"

while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a regular expression for finding numbers in English text. It also provides functions for extracting and manipulating such numbers.

EXPORT

By default, the $number_re regular expression and the numify and extract_numbers subroutines.

SEE ALSO

This module was written for the Natural Languages chapter of the second edition of Advanced Perl Programming. If you liked the module, why not buy the book?

This module works rather well in conjunction with Lingua::EN::Words2Nums, which is a very cool module anyway. (And I stole some of this module's code from it. Thanks, Joey!) It also should be involved with Lingua::EN::NamedEntity in the future, so check that one out too.

AUTHOR

Simon Cozens, <simon@kasei.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003 by Simon Cozens

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