Number names
ALGOL 68
PROC number words = (INT n)STRING:( # returns a string representation of n in words. Currently deals with anything from 0 to 999 999 999. # []STRING digits = []STRING ("zero","one","two","three","four","five","six","seven","eight","nine")[@0]; []STRING teens = []STRING ("ten","eleven","twelve","thirteen","fourteen","fifteen","sixteen","seventeen","eighteen","nineteen")[@0]; []STRING decades = []STRING ("twenty","thirty","forty","fifty","sixty","seventy","eighty","ninety")[@2]; PROC three digits = (INT n)STRING: ( # does the conversion for n from 0 to 999. # INT tens = n MOD 100 OVER 10; INT units = n MOD 10; (n >= 100|digits[n OVER 100] + " " + "hundred" + (n MOD 100 /= 0|" and "|"")|"") + (tens /= 0|(tens = 1|teens[units]|decades[tens] + (units /= 0|"-"|""))) + (units /= 0 AND tens /= 1 OR n = 0|digits[units]|"") ); INT m = n OVER 1 000 000; INT k = n MOD 1 000 000 OVER 1000; INT u = n MOD 1000; (m /= 0|three digits(m) + " million"|"") + (m /= 0 AND (k /= 0 OR u >= 100)|", "|"") + (k /= 0|three digits(k) + " thousand"|"") + ((m /= 0 OR k /= 0) AND u > 0 AND u < 100|" and " |: k /= 0 AND u /= 0|", "|"") + (u /= 0 OR n = 0|three digits(u)|"") ); on logical file end(stand in, (REF FILE f)BOOL: stop iteration); on value error(stand in, (REF FILE f)BOOL: stop iteration); DO # until user hits EOF # INT n; print("n? "); read((n, new line)); print((number words(n), new line)) OD; stop iteration: SKIP
Example input with output:
n? 43112609 forty-three million, one hundred and twelve thousand, six hundred and nine