NAME

Lingua::Num2Word - wrapper for number to text conversion modules of various languages in the Lingua:: hierarchy.

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Num2Word;

my $numbers = Lingua::Num2Word->new;

# try to use czech module (Lingua::CS::Num2Word) for conversion to text
my $text = $numbers->cardinal( 'cs', 123 );

# or procedural usage if you dislike OO
my $text = Lingua::Num2Word::cardinal( 'cs', 123 );

print $text || "sorry, can't convert this number into czech language.";

DESCRIPTION

Lingua::Num2Word is module for converting numbers into their representation in spoken language. This is wrapper for various Lingua::XX::Num2Word modules. Output encoding is utf8.

For further information about various limitations see documentation for currently used package.

Functions

• known_langs

  List of all currently supported languages.

• langs

  List of all known language codes from iso639.

• cardinal(lang,number)

  Conversion from number to text representation in specified language.

Language codes and names from iso639 can be found at "/www.triacom.com/archive/iso639.en.html"" in "http:

EXPORT_OK

• cardinal

• known_langs

• langs

Required modules / supported languages

This module is only wrapper and require other cpan modules for requested conversions eg. Lingua::AF::Numbers for Afrikaans.

Currently supported languages/modules are:

• af - Lingua::AF::Numbers

• cs - Lingua::CS::Num2Word

• de - Lingua::DE::Num2Word

• en - Lingua::EN::Numbers

• es - Lingua::ES::Numeros

• eu - Lingua::EU::Numbers

• fr - Lingua::FR::Numbers

• id - Lingua::ID::Nums2Words

• in - see 'id'

• it - Lingua::IT::Numbers

• ja - Lingua::JA::Number

• nl - Lingua::NL::Numbers

• pl - Lingua::PL::Numbers

• pt - Lingua::PT::Nums2Words

• ru - Lingua::RU::Number

• sv - Lingua::SV::Num2Word

• zh - Lingua::ZH::Numbers

KNOWN BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Roman Vasicek <rv@petamem.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002-2004 PetaMem s.r.o.

This package is free software. You can redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.