Acme::Numbers - a fluent numeric interface
use Acme::Numbers; print one."\n"; # prints 1 print two.hundred."\n"; # prints 200 print forty.two."\n"; # prints 42 print six.hundred.and.sixty.six."\n"; # prints 666 print one.million."\n"; # prints 1000000 print three.point.one.four."\n"; # prints 3.14 print one.point.zero.two."\n"; # prints 1.02 print zero.point.zero.five."\n"; # prints 0.05 print four.pounds."\n"; # prints "4.00" print four.pounds.five."\n"; # prints "4.05" print four.pounds.fifty."\n"; # prints "4.50" print four.pounds.fifty.five."\n"; # prints "4.55" print fifty.pence."\n"; # prints "0.50" print fifty.five.pence."\n"; # prints "0.55" print four.pounds.fifty.pence."\n"; # prints "4.50" print four.pounds.and.fifty.p."\n"; # prints "4.50" print fifty.cents."\n"; # prints "0.50" print fifty.five.cents."\n"; # prints "0.55" print four.dollars.fifty.cents."\n"; # prints "4.55"
Inspired by this post
http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/12/the_cardinality_of_a_fluent_in.php
and a burning curiosity. At leats, I hope the burning was curiosity.
By default billion is 10**12 because, dammit, that's right.
If you want it to be an American billion then do
use Acme::Numbers billion => 10**9;
Setting this automatically changes all the larger numbers (trillion, quadrillion, etc) to match.
You should never really use these methods on the class directly.
All numbers handled by Lingua::EN::Words2Nums are handled by this module.
Lingua::EN::Words2Nums
In addition ...
operator can be 'num', 'and' or 'point'
operator
The name of this object (i.e the method that was originally called).
The current numeric value
Handle putting these two objects together
Concatenate two things.
To install Acme::Numbers, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Acme::Numbers
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Acme::Numbers
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.