Sorting Numbers with Words

[James Davis]

Ok... I've got a long list of movie titles and I want to make the list sort number titles intermixed with word titles... for example:

"28 Days" would be with the T's for Twenty-eight
"10" would also be with the T's for Ten
etc

Now... I'm sure that someone out there has written a routine that would convert a given number to it's word related counterpart... does anyone have it?

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[Don Schullian]

hi jim,

we just had a major discussion on the numbers -> words issue.
here's my idea of how to do it.
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=24000

my 2cents: "28 days" is the title. not "twenty-eight days"
so, for my money, it sorts before "aardvarks gone mad".



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c'ya
don
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[James Davis]

Thanks Don... Will mess around with it and see what I can figure out... not quite sure which version of Basic you've wrote that for thou.

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[Davide Vecchi]

Jim, Don's function is written for being compiled as a Windows DLL. It should be no problem to convert it to PB/DOS.
For sure there is to strip away ALIAS "fValue2Words" and EXPORT from the procedure header (they have to do with being a DLL). Some other feature specific of the Windows compilers seems to be used; now i got no time to look at it, but i'm sure that if you ask here about how do they can be translated, you'll get all the answers.

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[This message has been edited by Davide Vecchi (edited October 31, 2003).]

[Don Schullian]

opps!!! sorry james... forgot you're working in dos (don't mind the header) i'll see if i can rustle up the dos version or cut this one back a bit.

ok... got something (at least) that appears to be working in dos. give it a good test drive though.
check it out in the source code forum. http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=24046

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don
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[this message has been edited by don schullian (edited october 31, 2003).]