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It's actually based on Lingua::EN::Words2Nums, which is sort of what I really want. It doesn't support fractions and and decimal-point notations yet.

I might be tempted to patch it given some spare time.

Thanks!

-nuffin
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Re^3: Parsing human notations of numbers
by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 16, 2005 at 07:41 UTC

    I just checked Lingua::EN::Numericalize, and found that it doesn't properly support fractions either. "Three fourths" parses as 12... which is actually 3*4. That seems kinda wierd, but thems the breaks.


    Dave

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      I think I will try to use Lingua::EN::Words2Nums in conjunction with Math::Expr to create atoms of a string that looks like "1/4" out of "one fourth", which it seems that it can do, and evaluate that string as an expression. I might even be tempted to just eval it, but i'm not sure about that, as it is user data.

      -nuffin
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        If you're going to just eval it, first make sure you've got only numbers, and second, make sure the user didn't give a fraction with zero as the denominator. :)


        Dave

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