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From: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Printing plural forms.
Message-ID: <3331.27c23984@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 13:55:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.104810.549@ZYX.SE>
Followup-To: comp.lang.misc
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In article <1991Feb19.104810.549@ZYX.SE>, arndt@zyx.ZYX.SE (Arndt Jonasson) writes:
> We all have seen and, in various degrees, been irritated by texts such
> as:
> 	1 files were copied
> when it should have been:
> 	1 file was copied
> 
> I'd like to know: when programming, how do you avoid such errors? 

     printf("%d error%s copied\n", nfiles, nfiles?"s were":" was");
or
     printf("files copied: %d\n", nfiles);

Hey--this is all my opinion, nobody else's. Rely on it at your peril.
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