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How to translate a number to English words?

Execute the following Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL database example scripts in Query Editor to demonstrate how to translate numbers into English words.

Recursive UDF (user-defined function) is used to carry out the sql number to English words translation.

-- SQL number to words - SQL number to English - convert numbers into words

-- Translate number to text - Translate number to English - SQL number to check printing

USE AdventureWorks2008;

GO

-- SQL user-defined function - UDF - SQL scalar-valued function - SQL number to text

-- SQL numeric to words - integer to English - sql convert number to string

CREATE FUNCTION fnNumberToWords(@Number as BIGINT)

    RETURNS VARCHAR(1024)

AS

BEGIN

      DECLARE @Below20 TABLE (ID int identity(0,1), Word varchar(32))

      DECLARE @Below100 TABLE (ID int identity(2,1), Word varchar(32))

      INSERT @Below20 (Word) VALUES

                        ( 'Zero'), ('One'),( 'Two' ), ( 'Three'),

                        ( 'Four' ), ( 'Five' ), ( 'Six' ), ( 'Seven' ),

                        ( 'Eight'), ( 'Nine'), ( 'Ten'), ( 'Eleven' ),

                        ( 'Twelve' ), ( 'Thirteen' ), ( 'Fourteen'),

                        ( 'Fifteen' ), ('Sixteen' ), ( 'Seventeen'),

                        ('Eighteen' ), ( 'Nineteen' )

       INSERT @Below100 VALUES ('Twenty'), ('Thirty'),('Forty'), ('Fifty'),

                               ('Sixty'), ('Seventy'), ('Eighty'), ('Ninety')

DECLARE @English varchar(1024) =

(

  SELECT Case

    WHEN @Number = 0 THEN  ''

    WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1 AND 19

      THEN (SELECT Word FROM @Below20 WHERE ID=@Number)

   WHEN @Number BETWEEN 20 AND 99  

     THEN  (SELECT Word FROM @Below100 WHERE ID=@Number/10)+ '-' +

           dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 10)

   WHEN @Number BETWEEN 100 AND 999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 100))+' Hundred '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 100)

   WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1000 AND 999999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 1000))+' Thousand '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 1000) 

   WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1000000 AND 999999999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 1000000))+' Million '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 1000000)

   WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1000000000 AND 999999999999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 1000000000))+' Billion '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 1000000000)

   WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1000000000000 AND 999999999999999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 1000000000000))+' Trillion '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 1000000000000)

  WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1000000000000000 AND 999999999999999999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 1000000000000000))+' Quadrillion '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 1000000000000000)

  WHEN @Number BETWEEN 1000000000000000000 AND 999999999999999999999  

     THEN  (dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number / 1000000000000000000))+' Quintillion '+

         dbo.fnNumberToWords( @Number % 1000000000000000000)

        ELSE ' INVALID INPUT' END

)

 

SELECT @English = RTRIM(@English)

SELECT @English = RTRIM(LEFT(@English,len(@English)-1))

                 WHERE RIGHT(@English,1)='-'

RETURN (@English)

END

GO

 

-- Test number to English translation

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 18)

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 67)

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 947)

-- Nine Hundred Forty-Seven

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 984261)

-- Nine Hundred Eighty-Four Thousand Two Hundred Sixty-One

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 777999888)

/* Seven Hundred Seventy-Seven Million Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Thousand

   Eight Hundred Eighty-Eight */

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 222777999888)

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 555222777999888)

SELECT NumberInEnglish=dbo.fnNumberToWords ( 7446744073709551616)

/*

Seven Quintillion Four Hundred Forty-Six Quadrillion Seven Hundred

Forty-Four Trillion Seventy-Three Billion Seven Hundred Nine Million

Five Hundred Fifty-One Thousand Six Hundred Sixteen

*/

GO

 

 

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