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AS3 Convert Numbers to Words

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Full credit for this goes to Deva Raj (@nsdevaraj). This is also a good function for doing a similar thing, http://snipplr.com/view/27954/as3-convert-a-number-to-a-string/

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package
{
	public class NumberUtil
	{
		//Usage: trace(NumberUtil.converToWords(numbers));
		private static const THOUSANDS:Array = ['','Thousand','Million','Billion','Trillion'];
		private static const DECADES:Array = ['Twenty','Thirty','Forty','Fifty','Sixty','Seventy','Eighty','Ninety'];
		private static const TENS:Array = ['Ten','Eleven','Twelve','Thirteen','Fourteen','Fifteen','Sixteen','Seventeen','Eighteen','Nineteen'];
		private static const DIGITS:Array = ['Zero','One','Two','Three','Four','Five','Six','Seven','Eight','Nine'];
		private static const HUNDRED:String = 'Hundred ';
		private static const POINT:String ='point ';
		private static const BIG:String ='Too big'
		public static function converToWords(num:Number):String {
			var s:String = num.toString();
			s = s.replace(/[\, ]/g,''); 
			var x:int = s.indexOf('.'); 
			if (x == -1) x = s.length; 
			if (x > 15) return BIG; 
 
			var number:Array = s.split(''); 
			var Words:String = ''; 
			var cnt:int = 0; 
 
			for (var i:int=0; i < x; i++) {
				if ((x-i)%3==2) {
					if (number[i] == '1') {
						Words += TENS[Number(number[i+1])] + ' '; 
						i++; 
						cnt=1;
					}
					else if (number[i]!=0){
						Words += DECADES[number[i]-2] + ' ';
						cnt=1;
					}
				}else if (number[i]!=0) {
					Words += DIGITS[number[i]] +' '; 
					if ((x-i)%3==0) Words += HUNDRED;
					cnt=1;
				}
				if ((x-i)%3==1) {
					if (cnt) Words += THOUSANDS[(x-i-1)/3] + ' ';
					cnt=0;
				}
			} 
			if (x != s.length) {
				var y:int = s.length;
				Words += POINT;
				for (var j:int=x+1; j<y; j++) Words += DIGITS[number[j]] +' ';
			} 
			return Words.replace(/\s+/g,' ');
		}
	}
}
 
// USAGE EXAMPLE
// var myNumber:int = 2319854;
// trace("myNumber: " + myNumber);
// var myNumberWords:String = NumberUtil.converToWords(myNumber);
// trace("myNumberWords: " + myNumberWords);
//
// OUTPUT
// myNumber: 2319854
// myNumberWords: Two Million Three Hundred Nineteen Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty Four