Plurality in user messages

Question

Many times, when generating messages to show to the user, the message will contain a number of something that I want to inform the customer about.

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Answer 1

You can sidestep the issue entirely by phrasing the message differently.

string message = "The number of selected items is " + noofitemsselected + ". Are you sure you want to delete everything in this selection?";