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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? Are

I've never discovered any magic way, other than brute force:

	printf((n == 1) ? "%d file was copied\n" : "%d files were copied\n",n);
or:
	printf("%d file%s copied\n",n,(n == 1) ? " was" : "s were");