The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

chubertdev · 2013-11-05 Reply Admin

chubertdev:

Oddly enough, this is a case where the Select statement in VB .NET excels.

        Public Shared Function GetDayOrdinal(ByVal intDayOfMonth As Integer) As String
            Select Case intDayOfMonth
                Case 1, 21, 31
                    Return String.Format("{0}st", intDayOfMonth)
                Case 2, 22, 32 'asteroid knocked the Earth off a bit
                    Return String.Format("{0}nd", intDayOfMonth)
                Case 3, 23
                    Return String.Format("{0}rd", intDayOfMonth)
                Case 4 To 20, 24 To 30
                    Return String.Format("{0}th", intDayOfMonth)
                Case Else
                    Throw New ArgumentException(String.Format("Invalid day of month: {0}", intDayOfMonth))
            End Select
        End Function

is it too soon to claim Muphry's Law?

hehe

2013-11-08 Reply Admin

Working with day%10 would have been easier.

2013-11-11 Reply Admin

Found this in the javascript supplied by www.azcentral.com today:

var d = new Date(); var month = d.getMonth(); var day = d.getDate(); var year = d.getFullYear();

if(day == 1) { var date_suffix = 'st '; } else if (day == 2) { var date_suffix = 'nd '; } else if (day == 3) { var date_suffix = 'rd '; } else { var date_suffix = 'th '; }

switch(month) { case 0: month = 'Jan '; break; case 1: month = 'Feb '; break; case 2: month = 'Mar '; break; case 3: month = 'Apr '; break; case 4: month = 'May '; break; case 5: month = 'Jun '; break; case 6: month = 'Jul '; break; case 7: month = 'Aug '; break; case 8: month = 'Sep '; break; case 9: month = 'Oct '; break; case 10: month = 'Nov '; break; case 11: month = 'Dec '; break; }

2013-11-21 Reply Admin

TRWTF is failing to call OS library functions, unless this code was written in 1987.

2013-12-14 Reply Admin

bkDJ:
You can force a case fallthrough with a goto in C#...
case 1:
  do(blah);
  goto 11;
case 11:
  dont(blah);

A bonus WTF is that Microsoft officially recommends the use of goto in ths case (no pun intended) - see last code sample on that page

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