Decided to go with the module

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 65 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-179/mark-anderson/raku/ch-1.raku b/challenge-179/mark-anderson/raku/ch-1.raku
index 9f25e464ac..947de6ad1c 100644
--- a/challenge-179/mark-anderson/raku/ch-1.raku
+++ b/challenge-179/mark-anderson/raku/ch-1.raku
@@ -1,68 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env raku
+use Lingua::EN::Numbers;
 use Test;
 
-is ordinal(11),       'eleventh';
-is ordinal(62),       'sixty-second';
-is ordinal(99),       'ninety-ninth';
-is ordinal(100),      'one-hundredth';
-is ordinal(4320),     'four thousand, three-hundred-twentieth';
-is ordinal(11009029), 'eleven million, nine thousand, twenty-ninth';
-
-multi ordinal($n where * ~~ UInt)
-{
-    ordinal(number2string($n))
-}
-
-multi ordinal($s)
-{
-    my $ord;
-
-    my %h = :one('first'),    :two('second'), :three('third'), :five('fifth'), 
-            :eight('eighth'), :nine('ninth'), :twelve('twelfth');
-
-    my $m = $s ~~ / <[a..z]>+ $ /;
-
-    given $m
-    {
-        when %h{$_}:exists   { $ord = %h{$m} }
-        when .ends-with('y') { $ord = $m.subst(/ y $ /, 'ieth') }
-        default              { $ord = $m ~ 'th' }
-    }
-
-    $s.subst(/ $m $ /, $ord);
-}
-
-sub number2string($num)
-{
-    my @n = $num.polymod(1000 xx *);
-
-    my @lt-twenty = < one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve 
-                      thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen > andthen .unshift: '';
-
-    my @tens = < twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety > andthen .prepend: '', '';
-
-    my @magnitude = < thousand million billion trillion quadrillion quintillion > andthen .unshift: '';
-
-    return .reverse.join(', ') given gather for @n.kv -> $k, $v
-    {
-        given $v.chars
-        {
-            when 1 { take (@lt-twenty[$v] ~ ' ' ~ @magnitude[$k]).trim-trailing if $v }
-            when 2 { take (lt-hundred($v) ~ ' ' ~ @magnitude[$k]).trim-trailing }
-            default 
-            {
-                my $h = @lt-twenty[$v.substr(0,1)] ~ '-hundred';
-                my $t = lt-hundred($v.substr(1,2));
-                take (not $t) ?? $h !! ($h ~ '-' ~ $t ~ ' ' ~ @magnitude[$k]).trim-trailing; 
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    sub lt-hundred($n)
-    {
-        return @lt-twenty[$n] if $n < 20;
-        my @d = $n.comb;
-        return @tens[@d[0]] unless +@d[1]; 
-        return @tens[@d[0]] ~ '-' ~ @lt-twenty[@d[1]]
-    }
-}
+is ordinal(11), 'eleventh';
+is ordinal(62), 'sixty-second';
+is ordinal(99), 'ninety-ninth';