Use Lingua :: EN :: Numbers - turn "407" into "four hundred and seven", etc.
use Lingua::EN::Numbers qw(num2en num2en_ordinal);
my $x = 234;
my $y = 54;
print "You have ", num2en($x), " things to do today!\n";
print "You will stop caring after the ", num2en_ordinal($y), ".\n";
prints:
You have two hundred and thirty-four things to do today!
You will stop caring after the fifty-fourth.
If you read the module documentation, you will find that the module also supports the following functions, such as
- It can handle integers like "12" or "-3" and real numbers like "53.19".
- - "4E9" " ".
- "INF", "-INF", "NaN" "", " " " " .