Great Swift String Pluralize Extension

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Last update: Nov 8, 2022

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Overview

Pluralize.swift

Great Swift String Pluralize Extension

case-insensitive
tons of rules for irregular nouns (plural form)
supports uncountable nouns
allows dynamic addition of rules

Read this post for more information.

Basic usage

import Pluralize

"Person".pluralize()
// People

"Wolf".pluralize(count: 1)
// Wolf

"Person".pluralize(with: "Persons")
// Persons

Examples

Irregular Nouns		Always Singular in Form
"Amnesty".pluralize()	Amnesties	"Coffee".pluralize()	Coffee
"Dwarf".pluralize()	Dwarves	"Compassion".pluralize()	Compassion
"Hypothesis".pluralize()	Hypotheses	"Deer".pluralize()	Deer
"Oasis".pluralize()	Oases	"Food".pluralize()	Food
"Scarf".pluralize()	Scarves	"Happiness".pluralize()	Happiness
"Tableau".pluralize()	Tableaux	"Species".pluralize()	Species
"Vertebra".pluralize()	Vertebrae	"Stuff".pluralize()	Stuff

Adding Custom Rules: Singular = Plural

"Shrimp".pluralize()
// Shrimps

Pluralize.unchanging("shrimp")

"Shrimp".pluralize()
// Shrimp

Adding Custom Rules: Uncountable

"Water".pluralize()
// Waters

Pluralize.uncountable("water")
"Water".pluralize()
// Water

Adding Custom Rules: New Regex Rule

"Person".pluralize()
// People

Pluralize.rule("(p)erson$", with: "$1ersons")
"Person".pluralize()
// Persons
"Spokesperson".pluralize()
// Spokespersons

Example Regex Rules:

Pluralize.rule("(criteri|phenomen)on$", with:"$1a")
Pluralize.rule("(potat|tomat|volcan)o$", with:"$1oes")
Pluralize.rule("^(|wo|work)man$", with: "$1men")
Pluralize.rule("(f)oot$", with: "$1eet")
Pluralize.rule("lf$", with: "$1lves")
Pluralize.rule("(t)ooth$", with: "$1eeth")
Pluralize.rule("(g)oose$", with: "$1eese")
Pluralize.rule("^(c)hild$", with: "$1hildren")
Pluralize.rule("^(o)x$", with: "$1xen")

Adding Custom Rules: Whole Words

Pluralize.rule("were", with: "was")

Installation

Cocoapods

pod 'Pluralize.swift'

in code then

import Pluralize_swift

Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/joshualat/Pluralize.swift.git inside your project folder
Drag the Pluralize.xcodeproj file into the file navigator of your project.
Ensure that the deployment target of Pluralize.framework matches that of the application target.
In your target’s Build Phases, add Pluralize to the Target Dependencies build phase.
Add the appropriate Pluralize.framework product to the Link Binary With Libraries build phase.
Add the same Pluralize.framework to a Copy Files build phase with a Frameworks destination.

License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Comments

Bump version to 2.0
This bumps the version to 2.0, which supports Swift 3.

After merging this PR, please create a 2.0 tag:

cd Pluralize.swift/ git checkout master git pull origin master git tag 2.0 git push origin 2.0

Then, send an update to CocoaPods, that way we can just run pod update Pluralize.swift and get all of the Swift 4 goodies:

pod trunk push

Thanks a lot!
opened by jeffaburt 4
Add support for OS X

I'd like to use Pluralize.swift in a Mac app. It'd be nice if this library supported both OS X and iOS. I can take a swing at implementing this today.

Seems like this is the cleanest solution: http://colemancda.github.io/programming/2015/02/11/universal-ios-osx-framework/

opened by natan 1
Error with word ended with -y
I try the project with "City".pluralize() and "Amnesty".pluralize()

Result : "Citys" and "Amnestys" Good result : "Cities" and "Amnesties"

I think this rule is not good :

rule("(r|l|b)y$", with:"$1ies")

Thx,
opened by lemonnm 1
Private init

I made the Pluralizer class initialiser private as there is no need to initialiser it outside the class and it prevents there to be more than an instance of the class.

opened by Gtwatt1 0
Can I use it for swift 4?

Hi, I would like to use this for swift 4. I have included the Pluralize framework in my project. Changed the deployment target to 10.12 since it is my main project deployment project. git clone https://github.com/joshualat/Pluralize.swift.git inside your project folder I have done the steps: Drag the Pluralize.xcodeproj file into the file navigator of your project. Ensure that the deployment target of Pluralize.framework matches that of the application target. In your target’s Build Phases, add Pluralize to the Target Dependencies build phase. Add the appropriate Pluralize.framework product to the Link Binary With Libraries build phase. Add the same Pluralize.framework to a Copy Files build phase with a Frameworks destination.

I have tried both import Pluralize_swift and import Pluralize. But it has showed me that the module is not found.

Is this because I cannot use swift 4 for Pluralize framework you build?

Thank you, Gemma

opened by GemmaJing 2
CocoaPods not updated with Swift 3 updates

I followed the instructions for installing Pluralize into my project, and when attempting to build, it appears the version pulled from CocoaPods is out of date. Is there a version I should explicitly specify in my podfile?

opened by nickmeehan 1