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Numerizer

Numerizer is a gem to help with parsing numbers in natural language from strings (ex forty two). It was extracted from the awesome Chronic gem github.com/evaryont/chronic.

Installation

    $ sudo gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
    $ sudo gem install numerizer

Usage

    >> require 'numerizer'
    => true
    >> Numerizer.numerize('forty two')
    => "42"
    >> Numerizer.numerize('two and a half')
    => "2.5"
    >> Numerizer.numerize('three quarters')
    => "3/4"
    >> Numerizer.numerize('two and three eighths')
    => "2.375"

Contributors

Tom Preston-Werner, John Duff

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