12 Days of Christmas

Lest I be accused of not sharing some Christmas cheer, I thought I'd make up for my previous grumpy posts by singing "The 12 Days of Christmas" to all you lovely folks. Because I try not to stick with tradition, I'm going to sing it in the key of C#:

List pGiftsReceived = new List();
for (int nDay = 1; nDay <= 12; nDay++)
{
  Console.WriteLine("On the " + ToOrdinal(nDay) + " day of Christmas,");
  Console.WriteLine("my true love sent to me");


switch (nDay)
  {
    case 1 : pGiftsReceived.Add("And a partridge in a pair tree."); break;
    case 2 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Two turtle doves,"); break;
    case 3 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Three French hens,"); break;
    case 4 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Four calling birds,"); break;
    case 5 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Five golden rings,"); break;
    case 6 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Six geese a-laying,"); break;
    case 7 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Seven swans a-swimming,"); break;
    case 8 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Eight maids a-milking,"); break;
    case 9 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Nine ladies dancing,"); break;
    case 10 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Ten lords a-leaping,"); break;
    case 11 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Eleven pipers piping,"); break;
    case 12 : pGiftsReceived.Add("Twelve drummers drumming,"); break;
  }

for (int j = pGiftsReceived.Count - 1; j >= 0; j--)
  {
    string sGift = pGiftsReceived[j];
    if (nDay == 1 && j == 0) sGift = sGift.Substring(4);
    Console.WriteLine(sGift);
  }

Console.WriteLine();
}```
[Although I'm slightly embarassed to admit it (and I run a serious risk of receiving accusations of being a "dork" from certain quarters") I have actually compiled and run this code.]
Labels: dork




	
2 comments

	

		
		

			
			Ian Ferguson

			Dec 22, 2006

			20:35
		
		

			
Pfft, very good. Although I'm sure it could be optimised more; using 'case' seems a little unnecessary, I would put the lines into an array, and generate the longhand numbers and comma/space/break.

Oh and (although I can't be bothered to compile it myself) won't it output 'On the 11 day of Christmas' rather than 'On the eleventh day of Christmas'? I think version 1.1 is in order 8-)

		
	
	

		
		

			
			Tim Jones

			Dec 22, 2006

			23:23
		
		

			
All good points :o)

I would, however, like to point out that I've used the (undefined) method ToOrdinal, which is assumed to take in an integer and return the ordinal version. So it will display "eleventh", not "11", albeit using undeclared code...

		
	

	

		
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