package Template::Plugin::Num2Word;

use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.008000;
use base qw(Template::Plugin::VMethods);
use vars qw(@SCALAR_OPS);

use Lingua::Num2Word;
@SCALAR_OPS = qw(to_word);

our $VERSION = '0.30';

sub to_word {
    my $str = shift;
    my $lang = shift || "en";
    my $n = Lingua::Num2Word->new;
    scalar Lingua::Num2Word::cardinal($lang, $str);
}

# Module implementation here

1; # Magic true value required at end of module
__END__

=head1 NAME

Template::Plugin::Num2Word - Convert numbers to words in Template.

=head1 VERSION

This document describes Template::Plugin::Num2Word version 0.0.1

=head1 SYNOPSIS

In your template code

    [% USE Num2Word %]

    [% num_of_indians.to_word %] little Indians.


=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module is a Template Toolkit plugin that provides a C<to_word>
vmethod so it'll be very easy to convert from number to words.

=head1 INTERFACE 

=over

=item to_word

Objective interface that's called when people calls 'to_word' vmethod
in the template code. Currently it can convert numbers into English
words, different language support could be added.

The behaviour will be unexpected if your scalar is not a number.
Please be sure to take care of that.

=back

=head1 CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Template::Plugin::Num2Word requires no configuration files or environment variables.

=head1 DEPENDENCIES

L<Lingua::Num2Word>.

=head1 INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

=head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to
C<bug-template-plugin-num2word@rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at
L<http://rt.cpan.org>.


=head1 AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu  C<< <gugod@gugod.org> >>


=head1 LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Kang-min Liu C<< <gugod@gugod.org> >>.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See L<perlartistic>.

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