When slapping yourself in the head is too good for you

Chris Maunder

    public static string Pluralise(string text, int count, string culture = "en-US")
    {
        // The road to hell is paved with good intentions. 
        if (text.Length > 5 && text.EndsWithIgnoreCase(" need"))
        {
            string start = text.Substring(0, text.Length - 5);

            if (count == 1)
                return start + " needs";

            return Pluralise(start, count, culture) + " need";
        }

         if (count == 1)
            return text;

        return PluralizationService.CreateService(new CultureInfo(culture)).Pluralize(text);
    }

I'll go have a stern word with myself about this one...

cheers Chris Maunder

ZurdoDev

Chris Maunder wrote:

I'll go have a stern word with myself about this one...

Chris Maunder wrote:

Pluralise

For spelling this wrong, no doubt. :-D

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Gary Wheeler

It was as if millions of non-English speaking users cried out in anguish, and were suddenly silenced...

Software Zen: delete this;

Rob Grainger

Pluralise is correct English. Pluralize, as is commonly the case, is a US bastardisation of English.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

ZurdoDev

If the English knew how to speak and spell properly, we would have never left. :-\

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.