Converting Words to Numbers in Java

Question

I have seen a lot of algorithms in which you give them a number say \"123\" and it converts it to One hundred twenty three. But i can\'t seem to find something that does the

Answer 1

Full credit to Kartic for the elegant answer. I've added to it to allow for processing a large block of text with these types of "word numbers" dispersed inside of it. Not as clean as I hoped since I have to process it without losing any formatting.

It's a work in progress but might be of some use to people: https://github.com/jgraham0325/words-to-numbers/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jg/wordstonumbers/WordsToNumbersUtil.java