Converting Numbers to Words in English by recursion.
- From: jedale@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 9 Mar 2007 20:03:09 -0800
I am trying to convert numbers to there corresponding words but it
only works for numbers under 1,000 but need it to work for 1 billion.
Here is the code I have so far:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
/* Prototype */
void print_num(int num);
char *digits[] = {
"zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five",
"six", "seven", "eight", "nine"};
char *tens[] = {
"ten", "twenty", "thirty", "fourty", "fifty", "sixty",
"seventy", "eighty", "ninety"};
char *places[] = {"hundred", "thousand", "hundred", "million",
"hundred", "billion"};
int main(){
int num = 120394;
print_num(num);
printf("%d ", num); /* Print that number */
}
/* Print out the number sequence */
void print_num(int num){
if(num < 10){
printf("%s ", digits[num]);
}
else if(num < 100){
//print_num(num/10);
printf("%s ", tens[num/10]);
print_num(num%10 +1);
}
else if(num < 1000){
print_num(num/100);
printf("%s ", places[num/1000]);
print_num(num/10);
}else{
print_num(num/10);
print_num(num%10);
}
}
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