loop through days of week, how?

[litton1]

Hi all, I am developing a program which does quite a lot with days of the week so I am trying to develop a way to loop through days of the week. This is so that no matter who workes on development Monday will always be zero. I have considered Enum and came up with this.

enum DayNumber : byte
{
    MON = 0,
    TUE = 1,
    WED = 2,
    THU = 3,
    FRI = 4,
    SAT = 5,
    SUN = 6
 }

private DayNumber aDay
{
   get
   {
       return currentDay;
   }
}

private DayNumber currentDay;

But is there a better way? If this way is correct then how do loop through the days?

Thx T


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[JurkMonkey]

I wrote a large calendar piece a long time ago. I used DateTime and returned things like DateTime.DayOfWeek.

Then to loop through the week, I would say:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine(now.AddDays(i).ToString());
}

 

[litton1]

thanks for the reply, yes that is how i do it at the moment, but i wanted to make it so that 0 would always be monday no matter who was writing the code. perhaps i should just leave as it is.

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[chiph]

Instead of defining your own enum, why not use the one that comes with the framework?

[tt]System.DayOfWeek[/tt]

And to print out the day title you'd use the DateTimeFormatInfo class:

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi = CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture().DateTimeFormat;
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString("ddd"), dtfi);

Chip H.


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[litton1]

ok thx guys, i will have a think on this i think.

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