words-to-numbers

Words To Numbers

Convert words to numbers. Optionally fuzzy match the words to numbers.

npm install words-to-numbers

If the whole string passed is a number then it will return a Number type otherwise it will return the original string with all instances of numbers replaced.

TODO: Add functionality for parsing mixed numbers and words. PRs welcome.

Basic Examples

import wordsToNumbers from 'words-to-numbers';
wordsToNumbers('one hundred'); //100;
wordsToNumbers('one hundred and five'); //105;
wordsToNumbers('one hundred and twenty five'); //125;
wordsToNumbers('four thousand and thirty'); //4030;
wordsToNumbers('six million five thousand and two'); //6005002;
wordsToNumbers('a thousand one hundred and eleven'); //1111;
wordsToNumbers('twenty thousand five hundred and sixty nine'); //20569;
wordsToNumbers('five quintillion'); //5000000000000000000;
wordsToNumbers('one-hundred'); //100;
wordsToNumbers('one-hundred and five'); //105;
wordsToNumbers('one-hundred and twenty-five'); //125;
wordsToNumbers('four-thousand and thirty'); //4030;
wordsToNumbers('six-million five-thousand and two'); //6005002;
wordsToNumbers('a thousand, one-hundred and eleven'); //1111;
wordsToNumbers('twenty-thousand, five-hundred and sixty-nine'); //20569;
wordsToNumbers('there were twenty-thousand, five-hundred and sixty-nine X in the five quintillion Y')) // 'there were 20569 X in the 5000000000000000000 Y'

With Fuzzy Matching

import wordsToNumbers from 'words-to-numbers';
wordsToNumbers('won huntred', {fuzzy: true}); //100
wordsToNumbers('too thousant and fiev', {fuzzy: true}); //2005
wordsToNumbers('tree millyon sefen hunderd and twinty sex', {fuzzy: true}); //3000726

Decimal Points

import wordsToNumbers from 'words-to-numbers';
wordsToNumbers('ten point five'); //10.5
wordsToNumbers('three point one four one five nine two six'); //3.1415926

Commonjs

const { wordsToNumbers } = require('words-to-numbers');
wordsToNumbers('one hundred'); //100;