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

I did a little bit of work with PluralizationService and came up with. I just made the PluralizationService static for performance and combined all.

Reference System.Data.Entity.Design

  using System.Data.Entity.Design.PluralizationServices;
  using System.Reflection;

  public static class Strings
  {
    private static PluralizationService pluralizationService = PluralizationService.CreateService(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture);
    public static string Pluralize(this MemberInfo memberInfo)//types, propertyinfos, ect
    {
      return Pluralize(memberInfo.Name.StripEnd());
    }

    public static string Pluralize(this string name)
    {
      return pluralizationService.Pluralize(name); // remove EF type suffix, if any
    }

    public static string StripEnd(this string name)
    {
      return name.Split('_')[0];
    }
  }