Posted by Bosconian on 01/14/06 02:24

This might seem like a trivial thing, but has anyone has come up with a
better way of outputting a singular vs. plural string?

For example:

// default plural label
$string = "appointments";
// singular label
if (mysql_num_rows($results) == 1) $string = "appointment";
print mysql_num_rows($results) . $string;

$results always contain 1 or more records so "0 appointments" is not
applicable.

Is there a way to do this in one line (perhaps with regular expressions)
without resorting to something lame like "1 appointment(s)"?

Again, no biggie and the above syntax is tried and true, but it's always
nice to learn a new trick now and then.

Thanks.

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