Clever way to append 's' for plural form in .Net (syntactic sugar)

Question

I want to be able to type something like:

Console.WriteLine(\"You have {0:life/lives} left.\", player.Lives);

instead of

Consol         


        

Answer 1

For C# 6.0 onwards, you can use Interpolated Strings to do this tricks.

Example:

    Console.WriteLine("\n --- For REGULAR NOUNS --- \n");
    {
        int count1 = 1;
        Console.WriteLine($"I have {count1} apple{(count1 == 1 ? "" : "s")}.");
        int count2 = 5;
        Console.WriteLine($"I have {count2} apple{(count2 == 1 ? "" : "s")}.");
    }

    Console.WriteLine("\n --- For IRREGULAR NOUNS --- \n");
    {
        int count1 = 1;
        Console.WriteLine($"He has {count1} {(count1 == 1 ? "leaf" : "leaves")}.");
        int count2 = 5;
        Console.WriteLine($"He has {count2} {(count2 == 1 ? "leaf" : "leaves")}.");
    }

Output:

 --- For REGULAR NOUNS --- 

I have 1 apple.
I have 5 apples.

 --- For IRREGULAR NOUNS --- 

He has 1 leaf.
He has 5 leaves.

You can play around on my .NET Fiddle.
For more details, go to Interpolated String documentation.