[ILUG-Webdev] Re: [ILUG] Converting Numbers to Words - A good problem to ponder of PHPer's

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, AJ McKee wrote:

> Sorry about the cross post
> 
> But heres a fun one for you all. I have small application that at the
> end of a month is to get account information from a accounts table and
> print off cheques for the person we owe money to. Now the select is easy
> enough, but as you know cheques appear in the folloing format;

> Pay: 	John Doe the sum of				$400.78
> 	Four Hundred Dollars and 78 Cents	

use lookup tables. one for the currency, one for mapping ascii 
digits to names, one for mapping (index of digit-index of decimal 
point) to magnitude string (thousand, hundred, ten, etc.), if 
(atoi(string[x] > 1) append(text,'s'); etc..  

regards,
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