How can I use this snippet to do something different for each language detected?

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Someone referenced this snippet to me found from How to getting browser current locale preference using javascript?

  var l_lang;
 if (navigator.userLanguage) // Explorer
  l_lang = navigator.userLanguage;
 else if (navigator.language) // FF
  l_lang = navigator.language;
 else
  l_lang = "en";

I am wondering how I can add on to it to do something for each language. How do I return the language and do something for each using this if then statement? This is what I was thinking.

    var l_lang;
 if (navigator.userLanguage) // Explorer
  l_lang = navigator.userLanguage;
 else if (navigator.language) // FF
  l_lang = navigator.language;
 else
  l_lang = "en"; 
  'do something
  l_lang = "fr"; 
  'do something
  l_lang = "ru"; 
  'do something
  l_lang = "de"; 
  'do something

Are you asking how to write an if-else block in javascript? – Mike Brant Nov 27 '12 at 23:52 — Mike Brant, Nov 27 '12 at 23:52
and what does this have to do with programming with Java? – Hovercraft Full Of Eels Nov 27 '12 at 23:52 — Hovercraft Full Of Eels, Nov 27 '12 at 23:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '12 at 00:04

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Try a javascript switch statement (documentation)

switch(l_lang)
{
case 'en':
  //execute code block 1
  break;
case 'fr':
  //execute code block 2
  break;
default:
  //code to be executed if n is different from case 1 and 2
}

answered Nov 28 '12 at 00:04

jaudette

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How can I use this snippet to do something different for each language detected?

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