Sankhyaank

Description

WordPress groups digits in threes (1,234,567). In India the same number is written 12,34,567, and large amounts are usually read in lakh and crore.

Sankhyaank (« sankhyaank » means numeral in Hindi and Gujarati) adds a shortcode that writes a number in the Indian numbering system:

• [sankhyaank value="1234567"] → 12,34,567
• [sankhyaank value="1234567" style="words"] → 12.35 lakh
• [sankhyaank value="20000000" style="words"] → 2 crore
• [sankhyaank value="250000" currency="inr"] → ₹2,50,000
• [sankhyaank value="1234567" digits="gujarati"] → ૧૨,૩૪,૫૬૭
• [sankhyaank value="1234567" digits="devanagari"] → १२,३४,५६७

Shortcode options

• value – the number. Commas and spaces in it are ignored.
• style – digits (default) for 12,34,567, or words for thousand, lakh and crore.
• decimals – how many decimal places to show. By default the number keeps its own decimals, and words uses up to 2.
• digits – latin (default), gujarati, devanagari, or auto to use Gujarati digits on a Gujarati site and Devanagari digits on a Hindi or Marathi site.
• currency – inr to add the rupee sign.

Large numbers stay exact, because the formatting works on the digits as text instead of converting them to a floating point number.

The words thousand, lakh and crore can be translated, so a site in Gujarati or Hindi can show them in its own language once translations are available.

For developers

Use the same formatting in a theme or plugin:

echo esc_html( Sankhyaank::format( 1234567, array( 'style' => 'words' ) ) );

The plugin has no settings, stores nothing in the database and does not contact any external service.