Java String Pluralize plural(String singular)

Description

plural

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String plural(String singular) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Oobium, Inc./*from w ww . j  av  a2  s.c  o m*/
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Jeremy Dowdall <jeremy@oobium.com> - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/

public class Main {
    public static String plural(String singular) {
        if (singular == null || singular.length() == 0) {
            return singular;
        }
        if (singular.equalsIgnoreCase("person")) {
            return singular.charAt(0) + "eople";
        } else if (singular.equalsIgnoreCase("child")) {
            return singular.charAt(0) + "hildren";
        } else if (singular.equalsIgnoreCase("alumnus")) {
            return singular.charAt(0) + "lumni";
        } else if ('y' == singular.charAt(singular.length() - 1)) {
            if (singular.length() > 1) {
                switch (singular.charAt(singular.length() - 2)) {
                case 'a':
                case 'e':
                case 'i':
                case 'o':
                case 'u':
                    break;
                default:
                    return singular.substring(0, singular.length() - 1) + "ies";
                }
            }
        } else if ('s' == singular.charAt(singular.length() - 1)) {
            return singular + "es";
        } else if (singular.endsWith("ch")) {
            return singular + "es";
        }
        return singular + "s";
    }
}

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4. plural(String arg)
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6. plural(String str, String suffix, int count)
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