Programming Challenge Numbers to Text?

[Walter Holladay]

The easiest way would be to simply create an array with all the numbers 
as words, and then just use the number as an index into the array.
Like so:

int main()
{
        const char* 
nums[10]={"Zero","One","Two","Three","Four","Five","Six","Seven","Eight","Nine"};

        int i;
        for (i=0; i < 10; i++)
        {
                printf("%d is %s\n",i,nums[i]);
        }
}

Cheers,
Walter

Steve wrote:
> Hello all,
> This is prolly a little offtopic, but I'm wondering if anyone can
> recommend a good quick method of converting numbers to text.
> For instance if I wanted to replace all instances of 100 with the
> words One Hundred, is there something already written, a library
> somewhere?  This seems like something that should have been tackled
> ages ago and is probably a part of some entry level C++ courses, but
> the only way I can think of doing it would be one helaciously long
> switch statement.  Fortunately this would only need to cover the
> numbers 0 to 100.
> It does need to be done in C/C++ though.
>
> Any recommendations on a good lib for something like this, or an
> example snippet that doesn't result in a 100+ line switch statement?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> (BTW the numbers are already stored in a stringor actually a const char*)
>
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