Heh, cute. Of course, I couldn't help but simplify this, with a little help from CPAN.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Lingua::EN::Inflect qw/NUMWORDS ORD/;

my @gift = (
    'this element purposely left blank',
    'partridge in a pear tree',
    'turtle doves',
    'French hens',
    'calling birds',
    'golden rings',
    'geese a-laying',
    'swans a-swimmings',
    'maids a-milkings',
    'ladies dancing',
    'lords a-leaping',
    'pipers piping',
    'drummers drumming',
);

for my $day( 1..12 ) {
    print "On the ${\NUMWORDS(ORD($day))} day of Christmas,\nmy true l
+ove gave to me,\n";
    if( $day > 1 ) {
        print "${\NUMWORDS($_)} $gift[$_],\n" for reverse 2..$day;
        print 'and ';
    }
    print "a $gift[1].\n\n";
}

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Of course all those plurals are just begging for Lingua::EN::Inflect::PL but I leave that an exercise to the reader...

Season's greetings to all the monks :o)


print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u'

In reply to Re: Twelve Days of Christmas (with help from CPAN) by grinder
in thread Twelve Days of Christmas by ibanix

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