I have an array like: 
@array = ("12 hours", "23 minutes", "17 seconds");

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I am trying to turn this into an English sentence like "12 hours, 23 minutes, and 17 seconds" Not so tough right? The real problem is that I never know how many items are in the list. The best that I could come up with was: 
$last = pop(@array);
$sentence = join ", ", @array;
$sentence .= "," if ($#array > 0);
$sentence .= " and " if ($#array > -1);
$sentence .= "$last";

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This works for anything, except zero elements, which I check for earlier in the block.

I'm sure some of you wizards can see what I cannot. Any help is appreciated.

=IndyZ

In reply to Sentances from arrays by IndyZ

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