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

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:54:19 -0800
Message-ID: <1166568856.900552@bubbleator.drizzle.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?

Perhaps from a third-party vendor but not, AFAIK, from Oracle.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Tue Dec 19 2006 - 16:54:19 CST

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