singular nouns if count equals 1, plural if 0 or >1
Pass a variable containing an integer representing the sum of something that has been counted to this subroutine and use $plur where an "s" would be needed if the count is 0 or >1.

example:

&pluralize($items);
print "$items item$plur listed";

sub pluralize{
my $var = shift(@_);
if($var==1){$plur=""} else {$plur="s"}
}

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various results:
0 items listed
1 item listed
2 items listed

Update: This topic is also covered in Perl Cookbook recipe 2.18. Printing Correct Plurals which has solutions using printf, Lingua::EN::Inflect, and (naughty) regexps.

In reply to Pluralize nouns by epoptai

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