Maybe that's why we keep getting these QoDs - the poster inherited a system using this awful code. 😉

That being said, this is the second of these strange "out of the box" type questions. It was pretty poor last time and equally poor this time. The solution given may be technically correct, but it doesn't show better ways of doing it and breaks once you switch from English to just about any other language.

I'd love to see just a little more screening for better QoDs rather than get another one of these. It's not just that it's not really challenging to figure "yes, there must be another way", but the answer is lacking. There are multiple solutions and I probably wouldn't mind if more of those were listed, but just to leave the language-specific solution in the answer alone makes it a pretty poor question/answer.