NAME

       Lingua::EN::FindNumber - Locate (written) numbers in English text

SYNOPSIS

         use Lingua::EN::FindNumber;
         my $text = "Fourscore and seven years ago, our four fathers...";

         numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."

         @numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"

         while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a regular expression for finding numbers in English text. It also
       provides functions for extracting and manipulating such numbers.

EXPORTED METHODS

   extract_numbers / numify / $number_re
         numify($text); # "87 years ago, our 4 fathers..."

         @numbers = extract_numbers($text); # "Fourscore and seven", "four"

         while ($text =~ /$number_re/g) { # Build your own iterator

SEE ALSO

       This module was written for the Natural Languages chapter of the second edition of
       Advanced Perl Programming. If you liked the module, why not buy the book?

         http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004567/tmtm-20

       This module works rather well in conjunction with Lingua::EN::Words2Nums, which is a very
       cool module anyway. (And I stole some of this module's code from it. Thanks, Joey!) It may
       also be involved with Lingua::EN::NamedEntity in the future, so check that one out too.

AUTHOR

       Current maintainer: Tony Bowden

       Original author: Simon Cozens

BUGS and QUERIES

       Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
         bug-Lingua-EN-Number@rt.cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2003-2005 by Simon Cozens

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.