What approach should I take Need Help on this one

[vbMarkO]

Hi all, first let me say if this has already been asked and aswered feel free to point me to the resolved post, as I couldnt find it.

 

Ok, what I am wanting to do may be a monumental task, but it is something I am looking at seriously adding to an application so here goes... you can tell me if I am crazy or if its not a big thing to worrry about.

 

My question is How would I go about doing this...

 

Lets take the number 1345 in a textbox in a labell it would say

One Thousand three Hundred fourty five.

 

OR the nunmber 13 in textbox gives a result of

 

thirteen

Or

320

 

Three Hundred twenty

 

Just thinking of how to begin this really got the ole head to scratching LOL

 

Just the same, perhaps the approach is not as dificult as it sounds

 

Your thoughts?

 

vbMarkO

[snarfblam]

That shouldn't be too difficult or monumental. The real work is in laying out the logic. If you manage to do it, maybe it could be something to stick in the Code Libarary.

 

First of all, you can break things up into triplets of numbers. The millions/ten millions/hundred millions places have absolutely no bearing on the thousands/ten thousands/hundred thousands places, which, in turn, have no effect on the ones/tens/hundres places.

 

The hardest part would be the ones/tens/hundreds. Once you work that out, you can use the same exact method for the thousands, and just tag on the word "thousand" (the same goes for millions). Hundreds should be pretty easy. Just a number followed by "hundred." In fact, the only hard part, really, is the last two digits where you have to deal with the whatevery-ty and whatever-teen. I would keep a list of 10 numbers ("zero", "one", "two", etc.), a list of 10 "teens" ("ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen"...), and a list of 10 whateverties where the first two (for numbers 0 thru 19) would be ignored ("blah", "blah", "twenty", "thirty", "fourty"...).

[vbMarkO]

Great ideas,

 

I will have code for posting to see the direction I am taking for sugestions as to make it more streamlined.

 

 

vbMarkO