Lingua::EN::FindNumber3pm

Usage

  use Lingua::EN::FindNumber;
  my $text = "Fourscore and seven years ago, our four fathers...";
  numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."
  @numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"
  while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator

Overview

This module provides a regular expression for finding numbers in English text. It also provides functions for extracting and manipulating such numbers.

Exported methods

  numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."
  @numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"
  while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator

Repository

<https://github.com/neilb/Lingua-EN-FindNumber>

BUGS and QUERIES

Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
[email protected]

Copyright and license

Copyright 2003-2005 by Simon Cozens

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.