Integer to Word

[Tyler Wiebe]

This is just something I created since I couldn't find anything to do it.

It converts an integer (Example: 1495954485) to the word representation of that number (Example: one billion four hundred ninety five million nine hundred fifty four thousand four hundred eighty five).

    public class Integer
    {
        #region Functions
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the total amount of digits in the value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="Value">The desired value to get the length from.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns the total amount of digits in the value.</returns>
        public static int ToLenth(int Value)
        {
            return Value.ToString().Length;
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the integer at the desired index position.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="Value">The desired value to get the index value from.</param>
        /// <param name="Index">The index position to get the desired integer from.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns the integer at the desired index position.</returns>
        public static int ToIndex(int Value, int Index)
        {
            return int.Parse(Value.ToString()[Index - 1].ToString());
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the integer within the first and second index positions.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="Value">The desired value to get the return value from within the first and second index values.</param>
        /// <param name="Index1">The index position of the beginning of the return value.</param>
        /// <param name="Index2">The index position of the end of the return value.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns the integer within the first and second index positions.</returns>
        public static int ToSubIndex(int Value, int Index1, int Index2)
        {
            Index1 = Index1 - 1;
            if (Index2 == 0) return int.Parse(Value.ToString().Substring(Index1, ToLenth(Value) - Index1));
            else
            {
                Index2 = System.Math.Abs(Index1 - Index2);
                return int.Parse(Value.ToString().Substring(Index1, Index2));
            }
        }
 
        private static bool CheckValue(int Value)
        {
            if (Value > int.MinValue && Value < int.MaxValue) return true;
            else
            {
                if (Value >= 0) throw new System.OutOfMemoryException("The value \"" + Value + "\" is to large to convert. Maximum Value = " + (int.MaxValue - 1));
                else throw new System.OutOfMemoryException("The value \"" + Value + "\" is to small to convert. Minimum Value = " + (int.MinValue + 1));
            }
        }
        private static string GetSingleDigit(int Value)
        {
            switch (Value)
            {
                case 0: return "zero";
                case 1: return "one";
                case 2: return "two";
                case 3: return "three";
                case 4: return "four";
                case 5: return "five";
                case 6: return "six";
                case 7: return "seven";
                case 8: return "eight";
                case 9: return "nine";
                default: return null;
            }
        }
        private static string GetDoubleDigit(int Value)
        {
            if (Value < 20)
            {
                switch (Value)
                {
                    case 10: return "ten";
                    case 11: return "eleven";
                    case 12: return "twelve";
                    case 13: return "thirteen";
                    case 14: return "fourteen";
                    case 15: return "fifteen";
                    case 16: return "sixteen";
                    case 17: return "seventeen";
                    case 18: return "eighteen";
                    case 19: return "nineteen";
                    default: return null;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                string Word = null;
                switch (ToIndex(Value, 1))
                {
                    case 2: Word = "twenty"; break;
                    case 3: Word = "thirty"; break;
                    case 4: Word = "fourty"; break;
                    case 5: Word = "fifty"; break;
                    case 6: Word = "sixty"; break;
                    case 7: Word = "seventy"; break;
                    case 8: Word = "eighty"; break;
                    case 9: Word = "ninety"; break;
                    default: return null;
                }
 
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Word) && ToIndex(Value, 2) != 0) Word += " " + GetSingleDigit(ToIndex(Value, 2));
                return Word;
            }
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the desired integer as a word.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="Value">The desired integer that will be returned as a word.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns the desired integer as a word.</returns>
        public static string ToWord(int Value)
        {
            CheckValue(Value);
            string Word = null;
 
            if (Value < 0) Word = "minus ";
            Value = System.Math.Abs(Value);
 
            int Value1 = 0;
            int Value2 = 0;
 
            switch (ToLenth(Value))
            {
                case 1: return Word += GetSingleDigit(Value);
                case 2: return Word += GetDoubleDigit(Value);
                case 3:
                    Value1 = ToIndex(Value, 1);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 2, 0);
 
                    Word += GetSingleDigit(Value1) + " hundred";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 4:
                    Value1 = ToIndex(Value, 1);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 2, 0);
 
                    Word += GetSingleDigit(Value1) + " thousand";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 5:
                    Value1 = ToSubIndex(Value, 1, 2);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 3, 0);
 
                    Word += GetDoubleDigit(Value1) + " thousand";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 6:
                    Value1 = ToSubIndex(Value, 1, 3);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 4, 0);
 
                    Word += ToWord(Value1) + " thousand";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 7:
                    Value1 = ToIndex(Value, 1);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 2, 0);
 
                    Word += ToWord(Value1) + " million";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 8:
                    Value1 = ToSubIndex(Value, 1, 2);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 3, 0);
 
                    Word += ToWord(Value1) + " million";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 9:
                    Value1 = ToSubIndex(Value, 1, 3);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 4, 0);
 
                    Word += ToWord(Value1) + " million";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                case 10:
                    Value1 = ToIndex(Value, 1);
                    Value2 = ToSubIndex(Value, 2, 0);
 
                    Word += GetSingleDigit(Value1) + " billion";
                    if (Value2 > 0) Word += " " + ToWord(Value2);
                    return Word;
                default: return Word;
            }
        }
 
        #endregion
    }
 

Sorry if the summary on these functions don't make sense, I'm not really good at giving descriptions.

Anyways, I had originally made more code that would create a list of words, which I then converted to what I remember as System.Speech.Choices with a foreach loop for a speech recognition program I was working on to control my computers master volume.

Making a list of words from zero to one hundred was easy enough and didn't a lot of memory, but the reason my functions for making a list aren't here is because I've decided that they aren't complete yet, and probably never will, mostly for the following reasons:
#1: Any programer can just as easily make a list and add words with a for loop.
#2: If anyone attempted to make a large list, it'd take up to much memory, trust me, I tried.

I even made a custom list collection that would only store the integer value, and then have a function to convert that value to the word, which was still pretty much a for loop. Even with only storing integers instead of strings, I could only store 134217728 values. Which is a lot, but since that number can change from system to system, I decided to leave the list functions out.

Anyways, let me know what you think. Any improvement ideas are welcome.

And to tell you the truth, I still have no idea what this could be used for, I just thought it'd be handy to have if I ever needed it.