Re: Roman numerals NSNumberFormatter?
Re: Roman numerals NSNumberFormatter?
- Subject: Re: Roman numerals NSNumberFormatter?
- From: Antonio Nunes <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:15:01 +0100
On 27 Oct 2006, at 14:28, Keith Blount wrote:
I am probably missing something really obvious here (I usually am),
but is there any easy way to convert an NSNumber (or just a regular
int) to a roman numeral? NSNumberFormatter seemed the obvious place
to look for this, but although it has everything else - including
the very useful NSNumberFormatterSpellOutStyle - I can't see any
style for converting to roman numerals.
Does anybody know how to do this? Do I have to write my own
formatter, am I missing one that exists, or is there an easier,
more basic way of doing this that I am missing?
Hi Keith,
I don't know whether this is easy, or even a particularly good way to
do it, but it certainly works for me:
I set these two up when my program is loaded:
NSDictionary *romanNumeralPairs = [[NSDictionary
dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle]
pathForResource:@"RomanNumerals" ofType:@"plist"]] retain];
NSArray *romanNumeralPairValues = [[NSArray
arrayWithObjects:@"1000", @"900", @"500", @"400", @"100", @"90",
@"50", @"40", @"10", @"9", @"5", @"4", @"1", nil] retain];
The file contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>1</key>
<string>i</string>
<key>10</key>
<string>x</string>
<key>100</key>
<string>c</string>
<key>1000</key>
<string>m</string>
<key>4</key>
<string>iv</string>
<key>40</key>
<string>xl</string>
<key>400</key>
<string>cd</string>
<key>5</key>
<string>v</string>
<key>50</key>
<string>l</string>
<key>500</key>
<string>d</string>
<key>9</key>
<string>ix</string>
<key>90</key>
<string>xc</string>
<key>900</key>
<string>cm</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Then I can use them in this method...
+ (NSString *)convertArabicToRomanNumeralValue:(int)input
{
int i, deflate = input;
NSString *romanValue = @"";
NSDictionary *pairs = [[NSApp delegate] romanNumeralPairs];
NSArray *values = [[NSApp delegate] romanNumeralPairValues];
int itemCount = [a count], itemValue;
for (i = 0; i < itemCount; i++) {
itemValue = [[values objectAtIndex:i] intValue];
while (deflate >= itemValue) {
romanValue = [romanValue stringByAppendingString:[paris
objectForKey:[values objectAtIndex:i]]];
deflate -= itemValue;
}
}
return romanValue;
}
... and get back the desired string. It's easy to convert the result
to uppercase if required.
HPH,
António
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