Programming Challenge Numbers to Text?

[Steve]

Yeah thats nice but then you have a 100 unit array, seems to me it
could probably be done in less than 30 lines if I can work out how to
handle place value in C

On 5/2/06, Walter Holladay <walter at holladays.org> wrote:
> 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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