Is there a good string pluralization library for actionscript? - actionscript-3

Question

I haven't found a good library actionscript library for this yet.
I want to do things like:
Inflection.pluralize( "cat" ) == "cats"
Inflection.pluralize( "fish" ) == "fish"
I know ruby on rails has a library like this build in; and javascript has a really nice one as well: http://code.google.com/p/inflection-js/.
Any one know of a similar thing for actionscript?

Answer 1

Google says:
http://kuwamoto.org/2007/12/17/improved-pluralizing-in-php-actionscript-and-ror/
package
{
public class Inflect
{
private static var plural : Array = [
[/(quiz)$/i, "$1zes"],
[/^(ox)$/i, "$1en"],
[/([m|l])ouse$/i, "$1ice"],
[/(matr|vert|ind)ix|ex$/i, "$1ices"],
[/(x|ch|ss|sh)$/i, "$1es"],
[/([^aeiouy]|qu)y$/i, "$1ies"],
[/(hive)$/i, "$1s"],
[/(?:([^f])fe|([lr])f)$/i, "$1$2ves"],
[/(shea|lea|loa|thie)f$/i, "$1ves"],
[/sis$/i, "ses"],
[/([ti])um$/i, "$1a"],
[/(tomat|potat|ech|her|vet)o$/i, "$1oes"],
[/(bu)s$/i, "$1ses"],
[/(alias|status)$/i, "$1es"],
[/(octop)us$/i, "$1i"],
[/(ax|test)is$/i, "$1es"],
[/(us)$/i, "$1es"],
[/s$/i, "s"],
[/$/i, "s"]
];
private static var singular : Array = [
[/(quiz)zes$/i, "$1"],
[/(matr)ices$/i, "$1ix"],
[/(vert|ind)ices$/i, "$1ex"],
[/^(ox)en$/i, "$1"],
[/(alias|status)es$/i, "$1"],
[/(octop|vir)i$/i, "$1us"],
[/(cris|ax|test)es$/i, "$1is"],
[/(shoe)s$/i, "$1"],
[/(o)es$/i, "$1"],
[/(bus)es$/i, "$1"],
[/([m|l])ice$/i, "$1ouse"],
[/(x|ch|ss|sh)es$/i, "$1"],
[/(m)ovies$/i, "$1ovie"],
[/(s)eries$/i, "$1eries"],
[/([^aeiouy]|qu)ies$/i, "$1y"],
[/([lr])ves$/i, "$1f"],
[/(tive)s$/i, "$1"],
[/(hive)s$/i, "$1"],
[/(li|wi|kni)ves$/i, "$1fe"],
[/(shea|loa|lea|thie)ves$/i,"$1f"],
[/(^analy)ses$/i, "$1sis"],
[/((a)naly|(b)a|(d)iagno|(p)arenthe|(p)rogno|(s)ynop|(t)he)ses$/i, "$1$2sis"],
[/([ti])a$/i, "$1um"],
[/(n)ews$/i, "$1ews"],
[/(h|bl)ouses$/i, "$1ouse"],
[/(corpse)s$/i, "$1"],
[/(us)es$/i, "$1"],
[/s$/i, ""]
];
private static var irregular : Array = [
['move' , 'moves'],
['foot' , 'feet'],
['goose' , 'geese'],
['sex' , 'sexes'],
['child' , 'children'],
['man' , 'men'],
['tooth' , 'teeth'],
['person' , 'people']
];
private static var uncountable : Array = [
'sheep',
'fish',
'deer',
'series',
'species',
'money',
'rice',
'information',
'equipment'
];
public static function pluralize( string : String ) : String
{
var pattern : RegExp;
var result : String;
// save some time in the case that singular and plural are the same
if (uncountable.indexOf(string.toLowerCase()) != -1)
return string;
// check for irregular singular forms
var item : Array;
for each ( item in irregular )
{
pattern = new RegExp(item[0] + "$", "i");
result = item[1];
if (pattern.test(string))
{
return string.replace(pattern, result);
}
}
// check for matches using regular expressions
for each ( item in plural)
{
pattern = item[0];
result = item[1];
if (pattern.test(string))
{
return string.replace(pattern, result);
}
}
return string;
}
public static function singularize( string : String ) : String
{
var pattern : RegExp;
var result : String
// save some time in the case that singular and plural are the same
if (uncountable.indexOf(string.toLowerCase()) != -1)
return string;
// check for irregular singular forms
var item : Array;
for each ( item in irregular )
{
pattern = new RegExp(item[1] + "$", "i");
result = item[0];
if (pattern.test(string))
{
return string.replace(pattern, result);
}
}
// check for matches using regular expressions
for each ( item in singular)
{
pattern = item[0];
result = item[1];
if (pattern.test(string))
{
return string.replace(pattern, result);
}
}
return string;
}
public static function pluralizeIf(count : int, string : String) : String
{
if (count == 1)
return "1 " + string;
else
return count.toString() + " " + pluralize(string);
}
}
}