ref: 8d695ec592fecd8bfba2a89ef33a444d71ce0996
parent: 751d4906efcc854c9c1fe3ac0dea6f0c183f7a40
author: Bjørn Erik Pedersen <[email protected]>
date: Tue Sep 22 18:31:02 EDT 2015
Add singularize template func See #1438
--- a/docs/content/meta/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/content/meta/release-notes.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
* We now use a custom-built `LazyFileReader` for reading file contents, which means we don't read media files in `/content` into memory anymore -- and file reading is now performed in parallel on multicore PCs. [1181](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1181)
* Hugo is now built with `Go 1.5` which, among many other improvements, have fixed the last known data race in Hugo. [917] (https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/917)
* Lots of fixes and improvements in the template funcs:
- * The new `pluralize` template func.
+ * The new `pluralize` and `singularize` template funcs.
* The `sort` template func now accepts field/key chaining arguments and pointer values. [1330](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1330)
* Several fixes for `slicestr` and `substr`, most importantly, they now have full `utf-8`-support. [1190](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1190) [1333](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1333) [1347](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1347)
* The new `last` template function allows the user to select the last `N` items of a slice. [1148](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1148)
--- a/docs/content/templates/functions.md
+++ b/docs/content/templates/functions.md
@@ -433,6 +433,11 @@
Note: "ZgotmplZ" is a special value that indicates that unsafe content reached a
CSS or URL context.
+### singularize
+Singularize the given word with a set of common English pluralization rules.
+
+e.g. `{{ "cats" | singularize }}` → "cat"
+
### slicestr
Slicing in `slicestr` is done by specifying a half-open range with two indices, `start` and `end`.
--- a/tpl/template_funcs.go
+++ b/tpl/template_funcs.go
@@ -1379,6 +1379,13 @@
}
return inflect.Pluralize(word), nil
},
+ "singularize": func(in interface{}) (string, error) {
+ word, err := cast.ToStringE(in)
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+ return inflect.Singularize(word), nil
+ },
}
}