humannumbers

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humannumbers

Convert numbers in the form of words to float64

Example:

var number, err = humannumbers.Parse("three million eight hundred and ninety four thousand seven hundred and sixty five")
// number == 3,894,765.0

Limitations

• English Only

How it works

• input: "three million eight hundred ninety four thousand seven hundred five"
• Remove unnecessary words (and)
• if there are decimals, just smash them together behind a '.' and add it to the result of below
• Parse each word into a number (int)
• []int{3, 1e6, 8, 100, 90, 4, 1000, 7, 100, 5}
• Go though this array and apply rules for addition and multiplication
• result: float64(3_894_705)

Documentation

Index

• func Parse(humanString string) (float64, error)

Functions

func Parse

func Parse(humanString string) (float64, error)

Parse takes a string containing numbers in the form of words, currently only English, and converts it to float64. Examples: two forty three eight thousand eight hundred and six one thousand six hundred and forty two thousand three hundred and eighty seven two hundred and forty six thousand three hundred and eighty seven.