in reply to Pluralize nouns

hmm, I always liked 
print "$item item".
  ($item==1 ? "" : "s").
  " in the set\n";

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Re: Pluralize nouns
by epoptai (Curate) on Dec 11, 2000 at 14:16 UTC
    Nice one! However, as my simplified example doesn't show, this snippet was written to handle pluralizing within here docs, hence the subroutine.

    thanks for the educational reply - epoptai

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