Sometimes I have a positive feeling of “what’ta f…” reading someone else code (at a contrary to negative feeling of the same sort wchich I get way to often). Recenty I’ve found the ?? operator in C#. And really I didnt know it could by used it this way: string s = null; string s2 = s ?? "remembered"; string s3 = s2 ?? "vorgotten"; The ?? operator returns the left operand if it not equalls null and the right one when it is. Simple and usefull!

Task: print a price according to a culture information but remember “we don’t need the damn ? (or $) sign”! Well: public static string FormatCurrency(double price) { CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); NumberFormatInfo nfi = ci.NumberFormat; nfi.CurrencySymbol = ""; string s = price.ToString("c", nfi).Trim(); return s; } public static double FromCurrency(string price) { CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); NumberFormatInfo nfi = ci.NumberFormat; nfi.CurrencySymbol = ""; double d; double.TryParse(price, NumberStyles.Currency, nfi, out d); return d; } An please print the percentage but without the damn % and ALWAYS with 5 decimal digits. public static string FormatInterest(double interest) { CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); NumberFormatInfo nfi = ci.NumberFormat; nfi.NumberDecimalDigits = 5; string…