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.

