in ruby on rails,this is plural and singular functions added to ruby String class.
how can i implements plural and singular functions in java?
such as "book" plural() => "books" "books" singular => "book"
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A:
Assuming you want to cover the exception cases too (e.g. person => people) then the module that handles this in Ruby on Rails is called Inflector. Take a look at this Inflector project on java.net for something similar in Java. From the project summary:
Inflector is a Java API for forming plurals of words. The library supports English spellings, and is locale-aware so it is straightforward to customize for any language.
Note: that I think this might only do singular => plural and not the other way around.
mikej
2010-07-21 08:49:04
If I remember correctly, that was the best answer given to the previous question I mentioned. +1. :)
Carl Smotricz
2010-07-21 08:52:59
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wangxl
2010-07-21 09:59:15