Possessive Problem

[sjpatrick]

I have a string, a person's name.

If the name is, say, (James), I make it possessive by appending an apostrophe ('); if it's (Bob), I also include an (s), i.e. ('s).

I haven't been able to find a way to check the supplied string to see if it ends with an (s) so I can determine what I need to do with said string.

The bluebook isn't helpful.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Steve


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[SMS63]

Given the string is assigned to a variable, say /Str, then:

Str Str length 1 sub 1 getinterval (s) eq
{
/Str Str (') cat def
}
{
/Str Str ('s) cat def
} ifelse

The code above implies that a catenation operator i.e.
S1 S2 cat -> S1S2
is already defined.

Hope that this helps