# number.bash# Author: Noah Friedman <friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu># Created: 1993-02-22# Last modified: 1993-04-01# Public domain# Conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey# Commentary:# Code:#:docstring number:# Usage: number [number]## Converts decimal integers to english notation.  Spaces and commas are# optional.  Numbers 67 digits and larger will overflow this script.## E.g: number 99,000,000,000,000,454#      => ninety-nine quadrillion four hundred fifty-four##:end docstring:function number (){ local result local val1 local val2 local val3 local d1 local d2 local d3   case "$*" in      *[!0-9,.]* )          echo "number: invalid character in argument." 1>&2         return 1         ;;      *.* )          echo "number: fractions not supported (yet)." 1>&2         return 1         ;;   esac   result=''   eval set - "`echo ${1+\"$@\"} | sed -n -e '      s/[, ]//g;s/^00*/0/g;s/\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)$/\"\1 \2 \3\"/;      :l      /[0-9][0-9][0-9]/{         s/\([^\" ][^\" ]*\)\([^\" ]\)\([^\" ]\)\([^\" ]\)/\1\"\2 \3 \4\"/g;         t l      }      /^[0-9][0-9][0-9]/s/\([^\" ]\)\([^\" ]\)\([^\" ]\)/\"\1 \2 \3\"/;      /^[0-9][0-9]/s/\([^\" ]\)\([^\" ]\)/\"\1 \2\"/;      /^[0-9]/s/^\([^\" ][^\" ]*\)/\"\1\"/g;s/\"\"/\" \"/g;p;'`"   while test $# -ne 0 ; do      eval `set - $1;             d3='' d2='' d1=''            case $# in               1 ) d1=$1 ;;               2 ) d2=$1 d1=$2 ;;               3 ) d3=$1 d2=$2 d1=$3 ;;            esac            echo "d3=\"${d3}\" d2=\"${d2}\" d1=\"${d1}\""`      val1='' val2='' val3=''      case "${d3}" in         '1' ) val3='one'   ;;         '2' ) val3='two'   ;;         '3' ) val3='three' ;;         '4' ) val3='four'  ;;         '5' ) val3='five'  ;;         '6' ) val3='six'   ;;         '7' ) val3='seven' ;;         '8' ) val3='eight' ;;         '9' ) val3='nine'  ;;      esac      case "${d2}" in         '1' ) val2='teen'    ;;         '2' ) val2='twenty'  ;;         '3' ) val2='thirty'  ;;         '4' ) val2='forty'   ;;         '5' ) val2='fifty'   ;;         '6' ) val2='sixty'   ;;         '7' ) val2='seventy' ;;         '8' ) val2='eighty'  ;;         '9' ) val2='ninety'  ;;      esac      case "${val2}" in         'teen')            val2=''            case "${d1}" in               '0') val1='ten'       ;;               '1') val1='eleven'    ;;               '2') val1='twelve'    ;;               '3') val1='thirteen'  ;;               '4') val1='fourteen'  ;;               '5') val1='fifteen'   ;;               '6') val1='sixteen'   ;;               '7') val1='seventeen' ;;               '8') val1='eighteen'  ;;               '9') val1='nineteen'  ;;            esac           ;;         0 ) : ;;         * )            if test ".${val2}" != '.' -a ".${d1}" != '.0' ; then               val2="${val2}-"            fi            case "${d1}" in               '0') val2="${val2} " ;;               '1') val1='one'    ;;               '2') val1='two'    ;;               '3') val1='three'  ;;               '4') val1='four'   ;;               '5') val1='five'   ;;               '6') val1='six'    ;;               '7') val1='seven'  ;;               '8') val1='eight'  ;;               '9') val1='nine'   ;;            esac           ;;      esac      if test ".${val3}" != '.' ; then         result="${result}${val3} hundred "      fi      if test ".${val2}" != '.' ; then         result="${result}${val2}"      fi      if test ".${val1}" != '.' ; then         result="${result}${val1} "      fi      if test ".${d1}${d2}${d3}" != '.000' ; then         case $# in             0 | 1 ) ;;             2 ) result="${result}thousand " ;;             3 ) result="${result}million " ;;             4 ) result="${result}billion " ;;             5 ) result="${result}trillion " ;;             6 ) result="${result}quadrillion " ;;             7 ) result="${result}quintillion " ;;             8 ) result="${result}sextillion " ;;             9 ) result="${result}septillion " ;;            10 ) result="${result}octillion " ;;            11 ) result="${result}nonillion " ;;            12 ) result="${result}decillion " ;;            13 ) result="${result}undecillion " ;;            14 ) result="${result}duodecillion " ;;            15 ) result="${result}tredecillion " ;;            16 ) result="${result}quattuordecillion " ;;            17 ) result="${result}quindecillion " ;;            18 ) result="${result}sexdecillion " ;;            19 ) result="${result}septendecillion " ;;            20 ) result="${result}octodecillion " ;;            21 ) result="${result}novemdecillion " ;;            22 ) result="${result}vigintillion " ;;            * )               echo "Error: number too large (66 digits max)." 1>&2               return 1              ;;         esac      fi      shift   done   set - ${result}   case "$*" in      '') set - 'zero' ;;   esac   echo ${1+"$@"}}provide number# number.bash ends here