Posted by Andy Hassall on 01/14/06 02:34

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:24:03 -0800, "Bosconian" <bosconian@planetx.com> wrote:

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

I tend to use something like:

print $count . ' noun' . ($count == 1 ? '' : 's')

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