Programmers are lazy or maybe they just can’t count. More and more I see sites out there with dumb things like “1 page(s)” or worse just “1 pages”. I could find lots of Yahoo pages with this kind of stuff, but that’s beside the point – I’m providing help for lazy programmers who can’t count. <\/p>\n
The rule is simple. Words are plural for every value except<\/strong> 1. But now you don’t even have to remember that. Just cut and paste one of the functions below. <\/p>\n To use any of them, call them with the count of things and then the singular form of the word and the plural form. For the truly lazy, if you can pluralize your word by just appending an “s” to the end, the last argument is optional. But don’t do this with words like “quantity”, duh.<\/p>\n Spits out: Here’s the code to cut ‘n paste:<\/p>\n PHP<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m surprised this isn’t already Yet Another PHP Function<\/i><\/p>\n Perl<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPHP Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\nI know 5 lazy < ?php echo pluralize(5, 'programmer', 'programmers'); ?>.\r\n\r\nI know 5 lazy < ?php echo pluralize(5, 'programmer'); ?>.\r\n\r\nTheir < ?php echo pluralize(1, 'mommy', 'mommies') ?> didn't teach them to count.\r\n<\/pre>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\nI know 5 lazy programmers.\r\n\r\nI know 5 lazy programmers.\r\n\r\nTheir mommy didn't teach them to count.\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nfunction pluralize($count, $singular, $plural = false)\r\n{\r\n if (!$plural) $plural = $singular . 's';\r\n\r\n return ($count == 1 ? $singular : $plural) ;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\nsub pluralize()\r\n{\r\n my ($count, $singular, $plural) = @_;\r\n\r\n $plural = $singular . 's' if (!$plural) ;\r\n\r\n return $singular if ($count == 1);\r\n return $plural; \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n