Re: Number Conversion Function

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: Abdul Rehman *EXTERN* <abr_ora(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Number Conversion Function
Date: 2009-04-06 17:48:47
Message-ID: 20090406174847.GD4525@alvh.no-ip.org
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Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Abdul Rehman wrote:
> > Can any body help me in converting numeric values into words
> > via postgres function: i.e. 313 to THREE HUNDRED THREE
>
> Here is a little PL/pgSQL function that should do what you
> want for numbers < 1000000000000.
> It should be easy to extend if you switch to bigint and decide
> if you want British or American English.

This is something that would be probably useful to have in
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Snippets
We have a function there to generate the numbers in spanish ...

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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