Hey I'm doing a programmaning project in class. One of the programs I have to do is to create a program that will allow the user to type in a number, while the program outputs the number in words. Example, if you typed in 21, the computer would respond with twenty-one. Please allow the program to work for 0-50. If a number typed is not in that range, be sure to let the user know. I really need help with this program. How would I go about doing it? all the programs have to be in the bourne shell by the way. If you can help me please feel free to e-mail me at mollyrb_80@yahoo.com thanks!

Molly: The easiest way of handling this is to use a tool that supports arrays such as awk or perl. Here's a stub that handles only 0 to 4 but you should be able to expand it and do some minor error checking: #!/bin/sh echo "Enter a number: \c" read x if [ $x -eq 0 ] then var="Zero" else var=`echo $x|awk ' BEGIN { numbers[1]="one" numbers[2]="two" numbers[3]="three" } { print numbers[$0] }'` fi printf "\nUser Entered: %s\n" $var # end script Regards, Nails