takes an integer 32 as input and displays "thirty two" as output

Habitual · 02-21-2017, 09:47 AM

What kind of "help" does the OP require?
You know the "what", so can we assume you don't know "how"?

Catching user input has several examples you can work up.
Ask if you get stuck.

dijetlo · 02-21-2017, 09:48 AM

Eh, as always, in every language, coding is easy
Figuring out how to make the code do what you want is what turns your hair grey.
That's probably what his teacher is looking for, in which case we just did most of his homework.

@Habitual
In shell, user input can be acomplished on the command line. He doesn't say "ask for user input", he says "create a bash script that takes an integer"
which I'm interpreting to mean "./myscript.sh 32 " would suffice. Global/built in var $1 would then contain the number 32

BW-userx · 02-21-2017, 09:49 AM

I do not even know why I jumped in on this alleged invalid homework question. Oh yeah, Just sharing my thoughts on it like everyone else. .. shutting up on this question :mode: ON

dijetlo · 02-21-2017, 10:04 AM

Goodness, don't do that.
You looked at this problem and offered an opinion
Someone else looked at it differently and disagreed
We could very well be in reverse positions next time

and since the purpose of this board is to provide knowledge and understanding, your participation in the conversation is invaluable (or at the very least, just as valuable as mine).

rtmistler · 02-21-2017, 10:05 AM

I'd like to remind everyone that while it is fair to note to a new poster that they have asked a poor question, as advice givers we all should be practicing a few things:

Restraint with the unhelpful and critical comments
We should welcome the new poster and give them information related to how best to re-shape their question
We should perhaps offer some links relevant to their task at hand
Members should consider being silent and allow a first time poster to have the time to respond back with updates. Another reason for this is that sometimes there are new members who ask for direct help by way of asking for full code and support and when they're informed that the LQ site does not work in this manner, they will no longer respond. This can help avoid frustration on the part of advice givers, should avoid continued negative comments which serve no one, and in the possible event that max-shah just hasn't gotten back to respond as yet, the fewer insults or negative comments, the better the picture may be for when they decide to put forth some effort to show their attempts or update their question with more details

BW-userx · 02-21-2017, 10:22 AM

you mean something like this?

Program to convert a given number to words

It is C
It can be converted into BASH Script. Arrays, Functions, Loops and Conditionals can be done in Bash Script or is that too much Information?

BW-userx · 02-21-2017, 11:09 AM

And this if @max-shah the OP should ever come back, should be enough to get him started on his path of self knowledge about BASH Scripting.

Have fun

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#Bash script to convert numbers into words

function Covert_num_2_words {

chrlen="$number"

 if [[ ${#chrlen} -eq 0 ]] ; then
  printf "Empty String\n"
  retutn 1
 fi
 
 if [[ ${#chrlen} -gt 4 ]] ; then
  printf "Length greater than 4 not supported\n"
  return 1
 fi
 
 single_digits=("zero" "one" "two" "three" "four" "five" "six" "seven" "eight" "nine")
 
 two_digits=("" "ten", "eleven" "twelve" "thirteen" "fourteen" "fifteen" "sixteen" "seventeen" "eighteen" "nineteen")
                     
 ten_multiple=("" "" "twenty" "thirty" "forty" "fifty" "sixty" "seventy" "eighty" "ninety")
                             
 ten_power=("hundred" "thousand")
 
#debugging
printf "\n Number: $number\n"
printf "${#chrlen}\n"

 if [[ ${#chrlen} == 1 ]] ;then 
  printf "single_digits[$number - 0]\n"
  printf ""${single_digits[$number]}"\n"
 fi



}


read -p 'Enter a number ' number

Covert_num_2_words number

Remember Arrays are zero based.

results;

Quote:

(userx@SlackO⚡️~/test)>>$ ls
ConvertNumbersIntoWords a.out dependencies h homework1 main.cpp
(userx@SlackO⚡️~/test)>>$ ./ConvertNumbersIntoWords
Enter a number 7

Number: 7
1
single_digits[7 - 0]
seven
(userx@SlackO⚡️~/test)>>$

rknichols · 02-21-2017, 12:41 PM

A creative solution would be to pass the number to a text-to-speech program, and then pipe the resulting audio to a speech-to-text program configured to use words for numbers.

BW-userx · 02-21-2017, 01:03 PM

right then set it up to speak to a voice recognition type writer and have it type it out then send it to a scanner for processing with word recognition software and have it send that to a program that can store it in a file for you.

BW-userx · 02-21-2017, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rknichols

A creative solution would be to pass the number to a text-to-speech program, and then pipe the resulting audio to a speech-to-text program configured to use words for numbers.

Done:

just add this to the code: it is actually text to speech so it is a half baked idea .. Lololo

Code:

 if [[ ${#chrlen} == 1 ]] ;then 
  printf "single_digits[$number - 0]\n"
  printf ""${single_digits[$number]}"\n"
  espeak "${single_digits[$number]}"
fi

astrogeek · 02-21-2017, 03:19 PM

Please everyone, let's keep our comments on topic and allow the OP to digest and respond to comments posted to this point.

sundialsvcs · 02-21-2017, 05:11 PM

Basically ...

(1) "Pick a programming language ... any(!) programming language!" (I can truthfully say that I solved this same problem thirty-five years ago in HP2000 Access BASIC.)

(2) The essence of this problem is nothing more than a very-trivial exercise in integer arithmetic ... the integer-division and integer-modulous operators. Once you have succeeded in breaking down "135" into "1," "3," and "5," you're home free.