Java String Pluralize pluralize(String name)

Description

pluralize

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String pluralize(String name) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*// w w w .ja v  a2s  .c  o  m
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2015 IBM Corporation, David Carlson.
 * 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:
 *   IBM - initial API and implementation
 *   David Carlson (Clinical Cloud Solutions, LLC) - do not pluralize names ending with digit
 */

public class Main {
    public static String pluralize(String name) {

        if (Character.isDigit(name.charAt(name.length() - 1))) {
            return name;
        } else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("children") || name.endsWith("Children")) { //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
            return name;
        } else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("child") || name.endsWith("Child")) { //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
            return name + "ren"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("data") || name.endsWith("Data")) { //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
            return name;
        } else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("datum") || name.endsWith("Datum")) { //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
            return name.substring(0, name.length() - 2) + "a"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("By")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name + "s"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("y")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name.substring(0, name.length() - 1) + "ies"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("ex")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name.substring(0, name.length() - 2) + "ices"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("x")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name + "es"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("us")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name.substring(0, name.length() - 2) + "i"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("ss")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name + "es"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        } else if (name.endsWith("s")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            return name;
        } else {
            return name + "s"; //$NON-NLS-1$
        }
    }
}

Related

1. pluralize(long strictlyPositiveCount, String singular, String plural)
2. pluralize(long val, String singular, String plural)
3. pluralize(String base, int quantity)
4. pluralize(String input)
5. pluralize(String name)
6. pluralize(String name)
7. pluralize(String name)
8. pluralize(String s)
9. pluralize(String singular, long number)