NAME¶
Lingua::EN::FindNumber - Locate (written) numbers in English text
SYNOPSIS¶
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 =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator
DESCRIPTION¶
This module provides a regular expression for finding numbers in English text.
It also provides functions for extracting and manipulating such numbers.
EXPORTED METHODS¶
numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."
@numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"
while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator
SEE ALSO¶
This module was written for the Natural Languages chapter of the second edition
of Advanced Perl Programming. If you liked the module, why not buy the book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004567/tmtm-20
This module works rather well in conjunction with Lingua::EN::Words2Nums, which
is a very cool module anyway. (And I stole some of this module's code from it.
Thanks, Joey!) It may also be involved with Lingua::EN::NamedEntity in the
future, so check that one out too.
REPOSITORY¶
<
https://github.com/neilbowers/Lingua-EN-FindNumber>
AUTHOR¶
Current maintainer: Tony Bowden
Original author: Simon Cozens
BUGS and QUERIES¶
Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
bug-Lingua-EN-Number@rt.cpan.org
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.