C#

Christian Graus wrote:

3 - make it appear in the designer. Not sure if this just happens or if you need to add some sort of attribute to make it happen

yesOrNoAgain = char.ToUpper(yesOrNoAgain);

switch ( Console.ReadLine() [ 0 ].ToUpper() )
{
    case 'Y' : ...
    case 'N' : ...
}

private readonly static System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string,bool> boolifier ;
 
boolifier = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string,bool>
(
    System.StringComparer.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase
) ;
 
boolifier [ "TRUE" ] = true ;
boolifier [ "TRU"  ] = true ;
boolifier [ "TR"   ] = true ;
boolifier [ "T"    ] = true ;
boolifier [ "YES"  ] = true ;
boolifier [ "YE"   ] = true ;
boolifier [ "Y"    ] = true ;
boolifier [ "1"    ] = true ;
 
boolifier [ "FALSE" ] = false ;
boolifier [ "FALS"  ] = false ;
boolifier [ "FAL"   ] = false ;
boolifier [ "FA"    ] = false ;
boolifier [ "F"     ] = false ;
boolifier [ "NO"    ] = false ;
boolifier [ "N"     ] = false ;
boolifier [ "0"     ] = false ;
 
 
private static bool
PromptForYesNo
(
    string Prompt
)
{
    string temp = PromptForEntry ( Prompt , false ) ; // Basically WriteLine and ReadLine like you have
 
    return
    (
        boolifier.ContainsKey ( temp )
    &&
        boolifier [ temp ]
    ) ;
}

true   :laugh: 

a simple list and a <code lang='text'>return list.Contains(key)</code> would do. Saves a lot of duct tape. Joel, where are you?

:)

if ("yYtT".IndexOf(Console.ReadLine().Trim()[0])>=0) doSomething();

if ("yYtT".IndexOf((Console.ReadLine()+"!").Trim()[0])>=0) doSomething();

public static bool
YesNo
(
    string Prompt
)
{
    System.Console.Write ( Prompt ) ;
 
    while ( true )
    {
        System.ConsoleKeyInfo ch = System.Console.ReadKey ( true ) ;
 
        if ( ( ch.Modifiers | System.ConsoleModifiers.Shift ) == System.ConsoleModifiers.Shift )
        {
            switch ( ch.Key )
            {
                case System.ConsoleKey.Y :
                {
                    return ( true ) ;
                }
 
                case System.ConsoleKey.Enter :
                case System.ConsoleKey.N :
                {
                    return ( false ) ;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Rosana2009 wrote:

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