Programming Challenge Numbers to Text?

[Jesse Stay]

On 5/5/06, Shane Hathaway <shane at hathawaymix.org> wrote:
> What I *do* see a need for, however, is something that automatically
> pluralizes properly, so that the system can output "finished 1 copy"
> instead of "finished 1 copys", "finished 1 copies", or the cop-out,
> "finished 1 copy(ies)".  If Lisp has that functionality built in, that
> would impress me, even if it's English-only.

See Perl's Lingua::EN::Inflect on CPAN

http://search.cpan.org

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