ch18.011_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 18 of "Perl Best Practices"   ##
##     Copyright (c) O'Reilly & Associates, 2005. All Rights Reserved.      ##
##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;



use Lingua::EN::Inflect qw( inflect );
use Test::More qw( no_plan );     # Now using more advanced testing tools

my %plural_of = (
    'mouse'         => 'mice',
    'house'         => 'houses',
    'ox'            => 'oxen',
    'box'           => 'boxes',
    'goose'         => 'geese',
    'mongoose'      => 'mongooses',
    'law'           => 'laws',
    'mother-in-law' => 'mothers-in-law',
 
    # Sascha's bug, reported 27 August 2004...
    'man'           => 'men',
    'woman'         => 'women',
);
 
 
for my $word ( keys %plural_of ) {
    my $expected = $plural_of{$word};
    my $computed = inflect( "PL_N($word)" );
 
    # Test expected and computed inflections for string equality...
    is( $computed, $expected, "$word -> $expected" );
}