How to convert number to words in Coda? SpellNumber

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Hi everyone,

Do you have any quick solution if you have a column of numeric values in a table, and now you need to convert them to their equivalent English words?

Thanks for your help.

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Hi @HelloWorld :slight_smile:
Welcome to the community :slight_smile:

You mean something like “123” -> “one hundred twenty three”? :slight_smile:

I’m pretty sure that no formula in coda can do that. And without external services the only option i can suggest is to create a reference table that work something like that
1 - one
2 - two
Ecc :sweat_smile:

And then basically you have to teach to a formula how to count, with the english logic, like 23 is twenty + three :smiley:

Or if you find a service that work with " url" you can build and pass that value :slight_smile:

But yeah i’m sure that if you need to teach a formula to count to infinite you will loose too much time :joy:
Let’s wait for some other suggestion :blush:

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Hi @HelloWorld
I tried the google translator on web, and after adding a number in it, it gave me that what you need.
Coda has google translator pack, but i think it is in PRO pricing plan.
I m on free plan, but someone else can try this solution, if it is working.

Tomas

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Hi @Tomas_Sebes,
That was clever.

Unfortunately I just tried and - well “123” in English is… “123” :slight_smile:

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When you on the web translate from one language to another it gives you number in words.
Try other language to english.

123

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Hi @Tomas_Sebes,
I did try: I hoped for the same and played around with different source/target languages.
Still 123…

I guess that the Google service via web offers much more that the API translation Pack - and I’m not surprised.

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Hello everyone, i have an update!
(p.s. nice try @Tomas_Sebes that could be a cool hack! )

I’ve found this website, that is literally the first google result, that works with parameters passed by url composition, it works like that

“https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/conversions/numberstowords.php?number=1234&format=words&letter_case=lowercase&action=solve”

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/conversions/numberstowords.php?number=1234

Where 1234 can be changed to whatever number you need and it convert it to a word, the problem is that then you have to extract from the webpage that word, and i have no idea in how to do that, but as seen that @Federico_Stefanato in already in there maybe he could help us :grin: :blush:

I’m always in the mood of recreating the algorithm in coda and then who need it could just copy that doc, but someone then have to do it practically :sweat_smile:

If you need it to reach idk 100 or 1000 i can do it, but further can become more “problematic” but is just a speculation because maybe is not that hard :grin:

Second update: it should not be that hard, i’ve also find already a guide for all non-english speaker that divide the process in steps
https://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57113.html
Federico ci pensi tu? :grin: :sweat_smile: :star_struck:

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Hi everyone,
Thanks for your messages and support - very much appreciated all the good ideas :+1: :+1:

I had the same issue on Google Sheet, and this is the script I used via Script Editor:

Now the question is how to make this work on Coda? :nerd_face:
Looking forward to your comments.
Thanks again for your help :grin:

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I created a pack to do just this. Check it out here:

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