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hey i would like to know if its possible to take a string like this

$string = "onethousandninehundredeightyfive"

and convert it into:

$string = "one thousand nine hundred eighty five"

i have something going on here but its no use

$string = "onethousandninehundredeightyfive"
Global $array[9] = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine']
Global $array1[19] = ['onethousand', 'twothousand', 'threethousand', 'fourthousand', 'fivethousand', 'sixthousand', 'seventhousand', 'eightthousand', 'ninethousand','tenthousand','hundred', 'twohundred', 'threehundred', 'fourhundred', 'fivehundred', 'sixhundred', 'sevenhundred', 'eighthundred', 'ninehundred']
MsgBox(0, 0, AddSpaces($string))


Func AddSpaces($string)
    Local $finalStr
    $length = StringLen($string)
    For $x = 0 To $length
        Local $trim = StringTrimRight($string, $x)
        For $h = 0 To 18
            If $trim = $array1[$h] Then
                $finalStr = $finalStr & " " & $trim
                $string = StringTrimLeft($string, $h)
                $length = StringLen($string)
            EndIf
        Next

        For $z = 0 To 8
            If $trim = $array[$z] Then
                $finalStr = $finalStr & " " & $trim
                $string = StringTrimLeft($string, $z)
                $length = StringLen($string)
            EndIf
        Next
    Next
    Return $finalStr
EndFunc   ;==>AddSpaces

 

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Here's one way that it could be done:

example()

Func example()
    Const $kData = "onethousandninehundredeightyfivefiftysixninetyfour"

    Local $s = $kData
    $s       = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(zero|one|two|three|four(?!ty)|five|six(?!ty)|seven(?!y)|eight(?!y)|nine(?!ty))", "\1 ")
    $s       = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(twenty|thirty|fourty|fifty|sixty|seventy|eighty|ninety)", "\1 ")
    $s       = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(hundred|thousand)", "\1 ")

    ConsoleWrite($s & @CRLF)
EndFunc

 

Edited by TheXman
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17 minutes ago, TrashBoat said:

ughh.. what are those (?i) i want to know i understand the (?!y) and (?!ty) , and thanks it works perfectly!

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm

(?i)  = Caseless: matching becomes case-insensitive from that point on.

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TheXman,

I would add the space before the detected string, not after - think of "nine" and "nineteen".

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5 minutes ago, Melba23 said:

I would add the space before the detected string, not after - think of "nine" and "nineteen".

@Melba23

Point taken.  My suggestion doesn't cover a myriad of additional possibilities or requirements.  But to your point, yes, there are several ways that it could have been accomplished. :)

Since "teens" weren't a part of the request, I didn't take them into account.  My solution was meant only to be as accurate as the request itself.  I try not to make any assumptions. :D

However, I did add "thousand" to the example just to point out that it was easy to expand upon the solution, if necessary.

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24 minutes ago, Melba23 said:

I would add the space before the detected string, not after - think of "nine" and "nineteen".

As the regex engine reads the pattern left to right it could be done like this  :)

$string = "nineteenthousandninehundredninetynine"

Local $pattern
$pattern &= "(?i)("
$pattern &= "hundred|thousand|twenty|ten|eleven|twelve|"
$pattern &= "thirty|fourty|fifty|sixty|seventy|eighty|ninety|"
$pattern &= "thirteen|fourteen|fifteen|sixteen|seventeen|eighteen|nineteen|"
$pattern &= "zero|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine"
$pattern &= ")"

$s = StringRegExpReplace($string, $pattern, "$1 ")
Msgbox(0,"", $s)

 

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1 hour ago, Melba23 said:

I would add the space before the detected string, not after - think of "nine" and "nineteen".

 

Slightly modified version that uses @Melba23's suggestion:

#include <Constants.au3>

example()

Func example()
    Const $kData = "onethousandninehundredeightyfivefiftysixninetyfour"
    Const $kData2 = "nineteenthousandninehundredeightyfivefiftysixninetyfourfourteententhousand"

    Local $s = $kData2
    $s = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(?<! )(zero|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|ten)", " \1")
    $s = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(?<! )(eleven|twelve|thirteen|fourteen|fifteen|sixteen|seventeen|eighteen|nineteen)", " \1")
    $s = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(?<! )(twenty|thirty|fourty|fifty|sixty|seventy|eighty|ninety)", " \1")
    $s = StringRegExpReplace($s, "(?i)(?<! )(hundred|thousand|million|billion)", " \1")
    $s = StringStripWS($s, $STR_STRIPLEADING)

    ConsoleWrite($s & @CRLF)
EndFunc

 

(?<! ) = Only do the replacement if there isn't already a leading space.

;)

Edited by TheXman
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yours still struggles where there is a match inside of your match

e.g. the following string returns  "twomilli oneight thousand four hundred fifty three" in your script, but splits correctly with @mikell's (after adding million to the lead the pattern)

$string = "twomillioneightthousandfourhundredfiftythree"

Local $pattern
$pattern &= "(?i)("
$pattern &= "million|hundred|thousand|twenty|ten|eleven|twelve|"
$pattern &= "thirty|fourty|fifty|sixty|seventy|eighty|ninety|"
$pattern &= "thirteen|fourteen|fifteen|sixteen|seventeen|eighteen|nineteen|"
$pattern &= "zero|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine"
$pattern &= ")"

$s = StringRegExpReplace($string, $pattern, "$1 ")
Msgbox(0,"", $s)

 

Edited by iamtheky

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4 minutes ago, iamtheky said:

yours still struggles where there is a match inside of your match

Nice catch! :)

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I believe to have answered the OP question in the other thread devoted to conversion "text to number".

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