Converting prices to words

Question

I'm trying to build a form to use as an estimate sheet for jobs.One line of this form is of course quoted price. The part I can't figure out is how can I get the value entered as quoted price to autofill another section of the form with the price as words (i.e. One hundred thousand dollars and ten cents ) instead of numbers. Can anyone help me out here?

Answer 1

It is built in to LiveCycle but for Acrobat you need to the use the some JavaScript. A sample check with a smaple funcition was provided as a smaple check.
// document level function;
aTens = [ "Twenty", "Thirty", "Forty", "Fifty", "Sixty", "Seventy", "Eighty", "Ninety"];
aOnes = [ "Zero", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine",
  "Ten", "Eleven", "Twelve", "Thirteen", "Fourteen", "Fifteen", "Sixteen", "Seventeen", "Eighteen",
  "Nineteen" ];
function ConvertToHundreds(num)
   var cNum, nNum;
   var cWords = "";
   num %= 1000;
   if (num > 99) {
      /* Hundreds. */
      cNum = String(num);
      nNum = Number(cNum.charAt(0));
      cWords += aOnes[nNum] + " Hundred";
      num %= 100;
      if (num > 0)
         cWords += " and "
   if (num > 19) {
      /* Tens. */
      cNum = String(num);
      nNum = Number(cNum.charAt(0));
      cWords += aTens[nNum - 2];
      num %= 10;
      if (num > 0)
         cWords += "-";
   if (num > 0) {
      /* Ones and teens. */
      nNum = Math.floor(num);
      cWords += aOnes[nNum];
   return cWords;
function ConvertToWords(num)
   var aUnits = [ "Thousand", "Million", "Billion", "Trillion", "Quadrillion" ];
   var cWords = (num >= 1 && num < 2) ? "Dollar and " : "Dollars and ";
   var nLeft = Math.floor(num);
   for (var i = 0; nLeft > 0; i++) {
       if (nLeft % 1000 > 0) {
          if (i != 0)
             cWords = ConvertToHundreds(nLeft) + " " + aUnits[i - 1] + " " + cWords;
          else
             cWords = ConvertToHundreds(nLeft) + " " + cWords;
       nLeft = Math.floor(nLeft / 1000);
   num = Math.round(num * 100) % 100;
   if (num > 0)
      cWords += ConvertToHundreds(num) + " Cents";
   else
      cWords += "Zero Cents";
   return cWords;
}// end document level function;
// custom JavaScript calculation for field with words;
var f = this.getField("Number"); // adjust for field with numbers to convert to words;
event.value = ConvertToWords(f.value);
// end field calculation;