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 =pod

 ---+ package TWiki::Plurals

 Handle conversion of plural topic names to singular form.

 =cut

 package TWiki::Plurals;

 use strict;

 =pod

 ---++ StaticMethod singularForm($web, $pluralForm) -> $singularForm

 Try to singularise plural topic name.

    * =$web= - the web the topic must be in

    * =$pluralForm= - topic name

 Returns undef if no singular form exists, otherwise returns the

 singular form of the topic

 I18N - Only apply plural processing if site language is English, or

 if a built-in English-language web (Main, TWiki or Plugins).  Plurals

 apply to names ending in 's', where topic doesn't exist with plural

 name.

 Note that this is highly langauge specific, and need to be enabled

 on a per-installation basis with $TWiki::cfg{PluralToSingular}.

 =cut

 sub singularForm {

     my( $web, $pluralForm ) = @_;

     $web =~ s#\.#/#go;

     # Plural processing only if enabled in configure or one of the

     # distributed webs

     return undef unless( $TWiki::cfg{PluralToSingular} or 

                          $web eq $TWiki::cfg{UsersWebName} or 

                           $web eq $TWiki::cfg{SystemWebName} );

     return undef unless( $pluralForm =~ /s$/ );

     # Topic name is plural in form

     my $singularForm = $pluralForm;

     $singularForm =~ s/ies$/y/;      # plurals like policy / policies

     $singularForm =~ s/sses$/ss/;    # plurals like address / addresses

     $singularForm =~ s/ches$/ch/;    # plurals like search / searches

     $singularForm =~ s/(oes|os)$/o/; # plurals like veto / vetoes

     $singularForm =~ s/([Xx])es$/$1/;# plurals like box / boxes

     $singularForm =~ s/([^s])s$/$1/; # others, excluding ss like address(es)

     return $singularForm

 }

 1;