# Converting words and letters into numbers

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-words-and-letters-into-numbers/277056>\
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**Created:** [December 7, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-words-and-letters-into-numbers/277056 "2008-12-07T01:08:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![raoulpetrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@raoulpetrus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/raoulpetrus)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-words-and-letters-into-numbers/277056/1 "2008-12-07T01:08:20Z")

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as a newby on the forum i would like to ask you if you could help me out.

I need to convert a many paged document into numbers.

logicly a=1, b=2, …z=26 & 1=1, 2=2, etc…  
the numbers of the letters need to be seperated by comma’s

and the spaces between words must be replaced by dashes

so for example:  
“i am crazy for doing this” should look like this:

“9-1,13-3,18,1,26,25-6,15,18-4,15,9,14,7-20,8,9,19”

does anyone know of a script that will take up to 500 words per conversion, or does anyone know a application that will be able to do this? unlimited amount of words would even be better.

Thanx in advance,  
Raoul