Translations with parameters

[russland]

One challange in globalizing/localizing an application is in finding the way to place dynamic values from the application into the tranlations received from the resource manager. Just appending a dynamic value to this static translation is NOT state-of-art. So while the following code outputs a simple translation ...

ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager("WinClient.Settings.FormLanguageAndLocale", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
Console.Out.WriteLine(rm.GetString("MSG_ApplySimilarCulture"));

... I ask myself how can you put params INTO that text?!
The Console.Out.WriteLine method has got a neat way to integrate params:
Console.Out.WriteLine("My Brother {0} is {} years old.", "Henry", "12");

Is there a way how you can do the same with those translations?

 

[russland]

For everyone that's looking for paramaeterized translations I build this:

simply call this line to insert params into a translated string. Just ensure that the replacements numbers are within curly brackes e.g. "My Brothers {0} plays for {1} FC"

new StringHandler().insertParam(strToFill, arrayOfStrParams)

---STATIC CLASS------------------
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace WinClient.Misc
{
/// <summary>
/// This Class extends the String class with extra functionality
/// </summary>
public class StringHandler
{
//static, no constructor needed to program

//field
private String str;
//create Property
public String Str
{
get { return str; }
set { str = value; }
}
public String insertParam(ref String strRef, String str0)
{
Regex reg;
//matches every single or more digit within curly brakets
reg = new Regex("\\{0\\}");
String modString = reg.Replace(Str, str0);
Console.Out.WriteLine(modString);
return modString;
}

public String insertParam(String strRef, String[] strings)
{
Str = strRef;
Regex reg;
for(int i=0; i<strings.Length; i++){
String placeHolder = "\\{"+i+"\\}";
reg = new Regex(placeHolder);
Str = reg.Replace(Str, strings);
Console.Out.WriteLine(Str);
}
return Str;
}
}
}

 

[chiph]

It's even easier than that.


Use the resource file to store your format string (as before), but then use the static String.Format() method to populate it.

Chip H.


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