Number(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Number(3)NAMELingua::EN::Inflect::Number - Force number of words to singular or
plural
SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number qw(
number to_S to_PL # Or anything you want from Lingua::EN::Inflect
);
print number("goat"); # "s" - there's only one goat
print number("goats"); # "p" - there's several goats
print number("sheep"); # "ambig" - there could be one or many sheep
print to_S("goats"); # "goat"
print to_PL("goats"); # "goats" - it already is
print to_S("goat"); # "goat" - it already is
print to_S("sheep"); # "sheep"
DESCRIPTION
This module extends the functionality of Lingua::EN::Inflect with three
new functions available for export:
number
This takes a word, and determines its number. It returns "s" for
singular, "p" for plural, and "ambig" for words that can be either
singular or plural.
Based on that:
to_S / to_PL
These take a word and convert it forcefully either to singular or to
plural. "Lingua::EN::Inflect" does funny things if you try to pluralise
an already-plural word, but this module does the right thing.
DISCLAIMER
The whole concept is based on several undocumented features and
idiosyncracies in the way Lingua::EN::Inflect works. Because of this,
the module only works reliably on nouns. It's also possible that these
idiosyncracies will be fixed at some point in the future and this
module will need to be rethought. But it works at the moment.
Additionally, any disclaimers on Lingua::EN::Inflect apply double here.
AUTHOR
Simon Cozens, "simon@cpan.org"
SEE ALSO
Lingua::EN::Inflect.
perl v5.14.2 2004-02-28 Number(3)
