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  • D Duncan Edwards Jones

    When it is just so very easy?

    Select Case word
    Case "JULY"
    Return 7
    End Select

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    Tim Carmichael
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    Maybe because if you used mixed case (July) it would fail, or be hard for the original author to determine what the issue was?

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      Maybe because if you used mixed case (July) it would fail, or be hard for the original author to determine what the issue was?

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      Lost User
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      "because it requires a recompile to update the values"

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      • D Duncan Edwards Jones

        When it is just so very easy?

        Select Case word
        Case "JULY"
        Return 7
        End Select

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        Lost User
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        Almost each project has them. It gets better if there's a concatenation going on of constants into a stringbuilder.

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        • T Tim Carmichael

          Maybe because if you used mixed case (July) it would fail, or be hard for the original author to determine what the issue was?

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          Duncan Edwards Jones
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          Nothing is removed from the snippet- it really can only deal with JULY.

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          • D Duncan Edwards Jones

            Nothing is removed from the snippet- it really can only deal with JULY.

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            Tim Carmichael
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            Where is that sarcasm icon when it's needed most?

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            • D Duncan Edwards Jones

              Nothing is removed from the snippet- it really can only deal with JULY.

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              Worried Brown Eyes
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              Maybe the TDDers never got round to writing the tests for other strings - therefore they weren't allowed to change it!

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              • L Lost User

                Almost each project has them. It gets better if there's a concatenation going on of constants into a stringbuilder.

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                Gaston Verelst
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                Or different languages.

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                • D Duncan Edwards Jones

                  When it is just so very easy?

                  Select Case word
                  Case "JULY"
                  Return 7
                  End Select

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                  oh, now this is fun. July and july for starters, but you can have other languages as well. In dutch it's pretty straightforward "juli", but in French that becomes juillet, spanish=julio and croatian apparently returns "srpanj" :-D

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                  • G Gaston Verelst

                    Or different languages.

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                    Lost User
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                    That's the one to watch for these days.. Your product may only be intended to English speaking nations (although there are differences even between these), but eventually some bright spark of a salesman's going to drop everyone in it selling a version to Beijing or some other exotic location :laugh:

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                      oh, now this is fun. July and july for starters, but you can have other languages as well. In dutch it's pretty straightforward "juli", but in French that becomes juillet, spanish=julio and croatian apparently returns "srpanj" :-D

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                      Sinisa Hajnal
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                      I challenge you to pronounce you if you're not slavic :) (I am, btw) R in sRpanj is hard as when the russian speaks english in movies and nj is single letter pronounced like New without U :)

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                        oh, now this is fun. July and july for starters, but you can have other languages as well. In dutch it's pretty straightforward "juli", but in French that becomes juillet, spanish=julio and croatian apparently returns "srpanj" :-D

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                        Lutoslaw
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                        ...and in polish: "lipiec"

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                        • S Sinisa Hajnal

                          I challenge you to pronounce you if you're not slavic :) (I am, btw) R in sRpanj is hard as when the russian speaks english in movies and nj is single letter pronounced like New without U :)

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                          Sascha Lefevre
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                          I did before I read your explanation, do I win a cookie? :-D

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