2 * Empire - A multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
3 * Copyright (C) 1986-2007, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
4 * Ken Stevens, Steve McClure
6 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9 * (at your option) any later version.
11 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 * GNU General Public License for more details.
16 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
22 * See files README, COPYING and CREDITS in the root of the source
23 * tree for related information and legal notices. It is expected
24 * that future projects/authors will amend these files as needed.
28 * plur.c: Pluralize (is that a word?) something
30 * Known contributors to this file:
36 #include "prototypes.h"
41 return n == 1 ? "" : "s";
47 return n == 1 ? "" : "es";
53 return n == 1 ? "y" : "ies";
57 * Change suffix of BUF to English plural if N > 1.
58 * Best effort, not 100% accurate English.
59 * Array BUF[SIZE] contains a zero-terminated string.
60 * If there's not enough space for changed suffix, it is truncated.
63 plurize(char *buf, int size, int n)
65 size_t len = strlen(buf);
70 switch (buf[len - 1]) {
73 strncat(buf, "ies", size - len);
76 strncat(buf, "es", size - len - 1);
79 strncat(buf, "s", size - len - 1);