coldfusion-inflector

This is a ColdFusion component which provides the ability to transform words from singular to plural (and back again), capitalises, CamelCases and humanises. It is based on the Ruby on Rails ActiveSupport::Inflector class.

Example Usage

Copy the Inflector.cfc file somewhere CF can find it, and then:

<cfset inflector = createobject("component", "Inflector")>
<cfset plural = inflector.pluralise("person")> <!--- people --->
<cfset singular = inflector.singularise("zombies")> <!--- zombie --->

Pluralisation and Singularisation

Pluralisation and singularisation both take into account:

• Standard grammar rules: the plural is formed by adding s to the end of the singlar form.
• Special cases: specific cases the occur with some word forms, such as analysis to analyses.
• Irregulars: where the singluar/plural don't follow standard rules, e.g. person becomes people.
• Uncountables: words which are the same in both singular and plural form, e.g. rice, money.

Other String Functions

• capitalise capitalises the first character in a string: test becomes Test
• CamelCase converts a given string to CamelCase, with all non-alphanumeric characters stripped: camel_case becomes CamelCase
• variablise converts a string to an underscore-separated list: CamelCase becomes camel_case
• humanise converts a string to a human-readable form: CamelCase becomes Camel Case
• pad pads a given string with spaces.

See test/tests/InflectorTest.cfc for how other strings are handled.

Licensing and Attribution

coldfusion-inflector was developed by Tim Blair and is released under the MIT license as detailed in the LICENSE file that should be distributed with this library; the source code is freely available.