Re: [Mono-list] About Format Function (VB.NET)

[A Rafael D Teixeira]

First a correction:

  An Spanish developer writes something like :

  if ( Format(myvar,"On/Off" == "Activado" )
  {
  	...
  }

That is not a good pratice anyway, one should always test directly myvar in that case.

  Format has two parameters : first, the object that you want to format
(numbers,dates, etc), and second (style) an string explaining the format
(for instance,Format(5,"00") will return the string "05". Well, one of
the "styles" is "On/Off". MSDN library says that it returns the string
"Off" if a number is equals to zero,and "On" if  the number is not equal
to zero.

I've been testing it using Microsoft .NET, and to my surprise, in my
spanish  windows box, it returns "Activado" (that means "On" in
Spanish") and "Desactivado"  ("Off", in spanish).MSDN doesn't say any
more about this.

By now, I always return "On" or "Off" (in English), but I would like
to know if anybody knows any universal symbol, or may be some general
rules in Mono to do it in one or other way.

These things, are handled either as Microsoft, by using resources, or with Mono's GetText look-alike. Never write translating code (blocks of lots of if/switch).

  Any Idea?

Have you checked, if you can only call the Formatting classes already in the class library? Most things in this VB.NET library are just wrappers for common classes.

Cheers,

Rafael Teixeira
Brazilian Polymath
Mono, MonoQLE Hacker


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