# Two Text-String Questions

Ian Macintosh (ian@iman.internet.co.nz)
Thu, 28 Sep 1995 04:40:16 PDT

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    On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, James Renken wrote:

    > 1. How can I convert a number into words?  (For example, 94,000 into
    > "ninety-four thousand")

    I'm not a lambda-core user, but I seem to remember seeing this somewhere
    in one of the programmer utils core objects.  Check $string_utils, etc.
    I think there is a function that already does this.  If you don't find
    it, wait a bit, as someone will undoubtably reply to this message with
    the exact function :^)

    > 2. How can I remove certain text from a string?  (For example, "SOMETHING.html"
    > into "SOMETHING")

    Use the strsub function.

    strsub("SOMETHING.html", ".html", "")    ->   "SOMETHING"

    Regards,

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