# prchecks - print formatted checks # input: number \t amount \t payee # output: eight lines of text for preprinted check forms BEGIN { FS = "\t" dashes = sp45 = sprintf("%45s", " ") gsub(/ /, "-", dashes) # to protect the payee "date" | getline date # get today's date split(date, d, " ") date = d[2] " " d[3] ", " d[6] initnum() # set up tables for number conversion } NF != 3 || $2 >= 1000000 { # illegal data printf("\nline %d illegal:\n%s\n\nVOID\nVOID\n\n\n", NR, $0) next # no check printed } { printf("\n") # nothing on line 1 printf("%s%s\n", sp45, $1) # number, indented 45 spaces printf("%s%s\n", sp45, date) # date, indented 45 spaces amt = sprintf("%.2f", $2) # formatted amount printf("Pay to %45.45s $%s\n", $3 dashes, amt) # line 4 printf("the sum of %s\n", numtowords(amt)) # line 5 printf("\n\n\n") # lines 6, 7 and 8 } function numtowords(n, cents, dols) { # n has 2 decimal places cents = substr(n, length(n)-1, 2) dols = substr(n, 1, length(n)-3) if (dols == 0) return "zero dollars and " cents " cents exactly" return intowords(dols) " dollars and " cents " cents exactly" } function intowords(n) { n = int(n) if (n >= 1000) return intowords(n/1000) " thousand " intowords(n%1000) if (n >= 100) return intowords(n/100) " hundred " intowords(n%100) if (n >= 20) return tens[int(n/10)] " " intowords(n%10) return nums[n] } function initnum() { split("one two three four five six seven eight nine " \ prchecks "ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen " \ prchecks "sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen", nums, " ") split("ten twenty thirty forty fifty sixty " \ prchecks "seventy eighty ninety", tens, " ") }