symbolic increment of roman numerals

[PetaMem]

   1:               my $str = uc shift @_;
   2: 
   3: 
   4: 	      if($str =~ s/XLVIII$/IL/) {
   5: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/VIII$/IX/) {
   6: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/III$/IV/) {
   7: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/DCCCXCIX$/CM/) {
   8: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/CCCXCIX$/CD/) {
   9: 		  
  10: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/LXXXIX$/XC/) {
  11: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/XXXIX$/XL/) {
  12: 		  
  13: 		  
  14: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/(I{1,2})$/$1I/) {
  15: 		  
  16: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/CDXCIX$/D/) {
  17: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/CMXCIX$/M/) {
  18: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/XCIX$/C/) {
  19: 		  
  20: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/I([VXLCDM])$/$1/) {
  21: 	      } elsif($str =~ s/([VXLCDM])$/$1I/) {
  22: 	      }
  23: 	      
  24: 	      return $str;

[thelenm]

++Fatvamp, cool code! With a long string of empty-block elsifs, you could also write the code using or or ||, like the following. Good work.

  my $str = uc shift @_;
  $str =~ s/XLVIII$/IL/ or
  $str =~ s/VIII$/IX/ or
  $str =~ s/III$/IV/ or
  $str =~ s/DCCCXCIX$/CM/ or
  $str =~ s/CCCXCIX$/CD/ or
  $str =~ s/LXXXIX$/XC/ or
  $str =~ s/XXXIX$/XL/ or
  $str =~ s/(I{1,2})$/$1I/ or
  $str =~ s/CDXCIX$/D/ or
  $str =~ s/CMXCIX$/M/ or
  $str =~ s/XCIX$/C/ or
  $str =~ s/I([VXLCDM])$/$1/ or
  $str =~ s/([VXLCDM])$/$1I/;
  return $str;

[Fastolfe]

For those interested in doing more "real" roman numeral operations, Math::Roman handles much of this for you:

use Math::Roman 'roman';

my $y = roman 'MCMLXXVII';
print "$y\n" while $y++ < 2002;

[PetaMem]

Hi,

I contacted the author of the Math::Roman module and reported some bugs, so the 1.07 should be usable now. The big difference in the approach, is the symbolic operation and not internal transformations to/from another nuber system/scheme.

Try to increment the 'IM' number with the Math::Roman module...

BTW: The symbolic approach lets you (though expensive operation) guess what roman number xy probably is, though its in a wrong format.

Most probably we'll merge the best of both worlds in a later Math::Roman version.

Bye
 PetaMem

[belg4mit]

Seems like it would make an interesting addition (Ha!) to on of the Roman numeral modules. Add subtraction of course ;-).

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perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"