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Re: built-in function to transform a singular string to plural

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 19 Dec 2006 14:10:51 -0800
Message-ID: <1166566250.971731.93060@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>

jcharpak_at_att.net wrote:
> Is there an already written function in Oracle that, given a singular
> word in American English, would return the plural form of the word?
> Ideally it would handle all the oddball cases e.g. man to men, mouse to
> mice, etc. but even something that handles the majority of cases would
> be appreciated.
>
> Is this something built-in to Oracle Text?

I thought the plural of mice was meeses? This is covered in Tom and Jerry 101 I think. Received on Tue Dec 19 2006 - 16:10:51 CST

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