Current state#

Reads a string of words referring to a numeral and prints the digit equivalent.

For example:
./bin/main "two hundred thousand, four hundred forty" prints 200440.

To do#

Mixed text reading#

• Expect to read a mixed text (numeral and plain text mixed together), maybe as a file or as a direct input
• Separate said mixed text into a list of chunks of pure plain text, and pure numeral string of words
• Split the list of chunks in 2 recursively
• For each leaf (chunk), evaluate the chunk (plain text evaluates to itself; numeral string evaluates to the equivalent integer value, converted back into a string)
• At every split, concatenate evaluations of both branches
• Parallelize on each split

Proper testing#

• Move the collection of assert calls & cout calls, away from the main file into proper test files
• End goal: use GTest

Cleanup#

• Add const keywords to non-modified arguments (like the "text" in the NumeralManager::analyze_numeral, or the "words" in the Trie operations)
• Properly alter types to better match their functions (like adding "unsigned" to many "pos" int arguments)
• Better implement the language-agnostic setup (make NumeralManager to read from a file, instead of having a separate .cpp file only with the "language_setup" function)
• Error handling
• Make the whole CLI interface (help/usage tooltip message, options to read a [list of] string[s] or a [list of] file[s], ...)
• Proper CMake configuration instead of a modified version of a Makefile generated at the beginning