You might also like to take a look at
Lingua::EN::Inflect, which has a more highly configurable numbers-to-words converter than either of the two modules you mentioned.
For example Lingua::EN::Inflect:
- supports decimals
- ignores intranumeral punctuation
- allows alternative groupings of digits
(to correct pronounce phone numbers, IP addresses, etc.)
- allows alternative pronunciations of 'zero', 'point', and 'and'
- understands ordinals
One reason
not to choose it is that it currently doesn't handle numbers bigger than ninety-nine decillion, nine hundred and ninety-nine nonillion, nine
hundred and ninety-nine octillion, nine hundred and ninety-nine
septillion, nine hundred and ninety-nine sextillion, nine hundred and
ninety-nine quintillion, nine hundred and ninety-nine quadrillion, nine
hundred and ninety-nine trillion, nine hundred and ninety-nine billion,
nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine
thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine (i.e. 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999)
The next release (due RSN) will handle numbers of any size, using the extensible notation described by Conway (no relation) and Guy in The Book of Numbers.
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