Convert a number(s) into text or work of art

Since you are taking about "Convert a number(s) into text or work of art"

To convert text to a "Work of Art" you could always consider postscript[^] or Scalable Vector Graphics[^] or even XAML[^]

There are quite a number of similar options available here[^] if you look at the Vector graphics and 3D graphics sections.

If you just want to display numbers from a file as text, the other answers should suffice.

Regards
Espen Harlinn

I think, nobody could figure out what are you trying to make.
All of a sudden, I get a guess: could in possibly be so called "ASCII Art"?!

There are good number of sources, see:
http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=ascii+art+generator[^].

—SA

From number to string

double myNum = 34.43;
string strMyNum;
strMyNum = myNum.ToString();
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From String to number

string strMynum = "34.43";
double myNum = double.Parse(strMynum);

I am guessing you want to take some text that has

"twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty seven"

and convert it to

12,957

for example.

If this is the case, then your starting point would be to split the string into some collection (List<string> or an array)
Next, parse it starting at the right - i.e. the lowest significant digit.
Take this word (seven in the example) and obtain the numeric equivalent. to do this you will need a dictionary of some sort containing pairs ("One", 1) ("Two", 2) of stings and integers.
Then move on to the next most significant word (fifty).
Perform a similar process.
Keep going.

You obviously need to take into account words that can be ignored ("and") and cases where you may get a single digit or a number (e.g. if the example was 12,950 your right-most word is "fifty" which you must take as the number 50 and not the digit '5' as it would be in the previous example.

You also need to check for words like hundred, thousand, million etc, in context (i.e. you need to know where you are in your output in order to determine the meaning of that word.

e.g. "Three hundred thousand"

You're looking for the least sig digit. You find "thousand" so you know that you need to provide the 'first' three digits yourself (000). When you next get the "hundred" you know you need to provide the next 2 digits (00). When you finally get the 3, you just use it. An lo! 3 00 000 or Three Hundred Thousand.

I really hope that's what your question was asking!

If you are certain of the formatting of the text, and have a limited range of numbers, you could just be lazy, and have a collection of every number written out, with its equivalent in digits!