NAME

Lingua::Conjunction - Convert lists into linguistic conjunctions and fill them into a template

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Conjunction;

say conjunction <chair>; # chair
say conjunction <chair spoon>; # chair and spoon
say conjunction <chair spoon window>; # chair, spoon, and window

# "Tom, a man; Tiffany, a woman; and GumbyBRAIN, a bot"
say conjunction 'Tom, a man', 'Tiffany, a woman', 'GumbyBRAIN, a bot';

# These are reports for May, June, and August
say conjunction <May June August>, :str('These [is|are] report[|s] for |list|');

# "Jacques, un garcon; Jeanne, une fille et Spot, un chien"
say conjunction 'Jacques, un garcon', 'Jeanne, une fille', 'Spot, un chien',
    :lang<fr>;

DESCRIPTION

Provides a way to make it easy to prepare a string containing a list of items, where that string is meant to be read by a human.

EXPORTED SUBROUTINES

conjunction

say conjunction <chair spoon>;
say conjunction <May June August>, :str('Report[|s] for |list|'),
    :lang<fr>, :!last, :sep<·>, :alt<°>, :con<aaand>, :dis<ooor>, :type<or>;

Returns a string with the given list of items joined based on the configuration specified by the named arguments, which are as follows:

alt

Specifies an alternative separator to use when at least one of the items contains sep separator. Defaults to ; (a semicolon).

head3 con

Short for conjunction. The term to use when joining the last item to the previous one, when type argument is set to value and. By default is set based on value of lang argument.

dis

Short for disjunction. The term to use when joining the last item to the previous one, when type argument is set to value or. By default is set based on value of lang argument.

lang

Takes a string representing the code of the language to use. This will pre-set con, dis, and last arguments. Defaults to en. Currently supported languages and the defaults they pre-set are as follows (language is the first two-letter key on the left; that's what you'd specify as lang argument):

lang	last	con	dis
af	True	en	of
da	True	og	eller
de	True	und	oder
en	True	and	or
es	True	y	o
fi	True	ja	tai
fr	False	et	ou
it	True	e	o
la	True	et	vel
nl	True	en	of
no	False	og	eller
pt	True	e	ou
sw	True	na	au

last

Specifies whether to use sep when joining the penultimate and last elements of the list, when the number of elements is more than 2. In English, this is what's known as Oxford Comma. By default is set based on value of lang argument.

sep

The primary item separator to use. Defaults to , (a comma).

str

say conjunction <May June August>, :str('Report[|s] for |list|');
say conjunction <Squishy Slushi Sushi>,
    :str('Octop[us|i] [is|are] named |list|');

Specifies a template to use when generating the string. You can use special sequence [|] (e.g. octop[us|i]) where string to the left of the | will be used when the list contains just one item and the string to the right will be used otherwise. The other special sequence is |list| that will be replaced with the "conjuncted" items of the list. Defaults to |list|.

type

Takes either value and or value or. Specifies whether words specified by con or by dis arguments should be used when joining the last two elements of the list.

AUTHOR

This module was inspired by Perl's Lingua::Conjunction and and List::ToHumanString. Some of the internal data was shamelessly ~~stolen~~ borrowed from Lingua::Conjunction's guts.

The rest is by Zoffix Znet (http://zoffix.com/)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.