Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number - Force number of words to singular or plural
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"
This module extends the functionality of Lingua::EN::Inflect with three new functions available for export:
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.
s
p
ambig
Based on that:
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.
Lingua::EN::Inflect
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.
https://github.com/neilbowers/Lingua-EN-Inflect-Number
Simon Cozens, simon@cpan.org
simon@cpan.org
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Simon Cozens simon@cpan.org
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.