Gambas ONE

I have a habit of ditching as many single use variables as I can. It's amazing the way you can use the dot . To pass all sorts of things in one line of text. If you need to re-use the variable a lot then it makes sense to create one. The big speed increase in cogiers ordinal method was in the use of...

I got home from work and was able to test and the ad-hoc string array does work :) So my final input on this is this tested and working one liner that works on any number value.. Public Sub OrdinalString(Value As Integer) As String Return Str(Value) & ["th", "st", "nd&qu...

No idea, I've always used iif.
it exists in a few languages.

I'm rubbish with gambas

In the wiki iif is written before if so what's the chicken and what's the egg? , it's the same command whatever
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/iif

Oops I've messed up with one problem ...

The 11st

Dang and it was so perfect ,
easily fixed with an iif()

So a 2 liner..

Dim ss As String = ["th","st","nd","rd","th"]
Return(Iif(v % 100 = 11, "th", ss[Min(4, v % 10)]))

I like shorter, as short as can be is best for me... I got it to a one liner 🙂 Public Sub GetOrdinal(v as Integer) As String Return(["th","st","nd","rd","th"][Min(4, v % 10)]) End Not sure if defining a string[] ad-hoc like that works though (cant te...

Not so dirty...

Dim ss as string[] = ["th","st","nd","rd","th"]
Dim v as Integer = value % 10
Return Str(value) & ss[Min(v,4)]

No, 5 is Integer, 5th is String. It's a simple function... Public nth(v as integer, Textonly as Boolean) Dim s as string =iif(textonly,"",str(v)) Dim n as Integer = v ٪ 10 Select n Case 1 S &= "st" Case 2 S &= "nd" Case 3 S &= "rd" Case else S &...

I'd agree, when it comes to style just go with what makes you comfortable. I started helping with gambas development so that involved learning Benoits style. So my style has adapted somewhat. Using iVar for Integer sVar for String etc makes sense and makes for more understandable code (6 months late...

A solution to what? I thought it was about preventing the application from starting multiple times ... sorry if I missed something aah i see , no i've already been there.. https://forum.gambas.one/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=943 using pgrep is better than PID files but Dbus is even better as it handle...

PJBlack wrote: ↑Thursday 8th July 2021 10:38am would using a PID file be a possible solution?

A solution to what?

I've previously used pgrep and shell commands and pipes/sockets

I think DBus is a better way