Re: Convertion from Figures to Words

From: <Brian_P_MacLean_at_eFunds.Com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:58:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00434F3E.20020327085836@fatcity.com>

You should be able to work out what you want from this example. I think I got the basic logic from an old document on MetaBlink titled "Bul# 99802.782 DOLLARS INTO WORDS FOR CHECKS". (Gotta luv that old decode command)

create table chk(num number);

insert into chk values(1);
insert into chk values(12345);
insert into chk values(0);
insert into chk values(0.1);
insert into chk values(12345.12);
insert into chk values(5373484.21);

commit;
select * from chk;
REM NUM
REM ----------

REM          1
REM      12345
REM          0
REM         .1

REM 12345.12
REM 9876543.21 COL TEXT format a110

select num,
  decode(num,

         0,'ZERO',
         decode(instr(num,'.'),
                1,'ZERO',

to_char(to_date(substr(num,1,decode(instr(num,'.'),0,length(num),instr(num,'.')

1

                                                   )
                                      ),'J'
                               ),'JSP'
                       )
               )


        ) || ' DOLLARS AND ' ||

  decode(instr(num,'.'),
          0,'ZERO',
          decode(length(num)-instr(num,'.'),
                  1,to_char(to_date(rpad(substr(num,instr(num,'.')
+1,length(num)
                                               ),2,0
                                        ),'J'
                                   ),'JSP'
                           ),
                  to_char(to_date(substr(num,instr(num,'.')+1,length(num)
                                        ),'J'
                                 ),'JSP'
                         )
                )


        ) || ' CENTS ' TEXT

from chk;

REM NUM TEXT
REM ----------

---

REM          1 ONE DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS
REM      12345 TWELVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND ZERO
CENTS
REM          0 ZERO DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS
REM         .1 ZERO DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS

REM 12345.12 TWELVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND TWELVE CENTS
REM 5373484.21 FIVE MILLION THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND TWENTY-ONE CENTS drop table chk;

Brian P. MacLean
Oracle DBA, OCP8i

                                                                                                                           
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• Ahmed Gholam Hussain <ahussain_at_gisqatar.org.qa>

> Dear Listers ,
>
>   I need to convert Figures to Words ...EX : 123 to One Hundred Twenty
> Three....
> Currently I am using a writen  function to do that ..But it has
> limitations ...
>
> Any suggestions regarding that  ?????

There are moduled which do this already in the Lingua:: group on CPAN. Hit up www.cpan.org, choose module search and look under that heading.

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