Question Pluralization Perplexity

I keep getting a ": No suitable Formatter could be found" exception when trying to update a localized string with plurals. I've tried with positional parameters, but discovered I could only use strings with the example codes given. So I tried with local variables with the same result. Here's the error:

FormattingException: Error parsing format string: No suitable Formatter could be found at 32

Player {nPlayer} roll  {nDice:p:{} die|{} dice}

And here's the relevant portion of the TMP_TXT object:


And here is the script driving it:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. using TMPro;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.Localization;
5.  
6. public class InstructLabel : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.     public LocalizedString localStringInstruct;
9.     public TMP_Text textComp;
10.  
11.     public int nPlayer;
12.     public int nDice;
13.     public void SetText(int player,int dice)
14.     {
15.         Debug.Log("InstructLabel.SetText(): player = "+player+"; nDice = "+dice);
16.  
17.         nPlayer = player;
18.         nDice = dice;
19.         localStringInstruct.RefreshString();
20.      
21.     }
22.     private void OnEnable()
23.     {
24.         localStringInstruct.StringChanged += UpdateText;
25.     }
26.     private void OnDisable()
27.     {
28.         localStringInstruct.StringChanged -= UpdateText;
29.     }
30.  
31.     public void UpdateText(string value)
32.     {
33.         textComp.text = value;
34.     }
35. }
36.  

I haven't used the reflection feature before so I suspect I'm making some sort of bonehead error with it. Please help!

 

Here's the URL to the screenshot. Somehow it shows up in preview but not in the post:

https://egbok.com/plural.png

 

There was something amiss at one of my web hosts. I updated the parent post with a working URL.

I updated the smart string with the object reference. Now I get:

FormattingException: Error parsing format string: Could not evaluate the selector "InstructLabel" at 8

Player {InstructLabel.nDice} roll  {InstructLabel.nDice:p:{} die|{} dice}

 

Now I get :
[

FormattingException: Error parsing format string: Could not evaluate the selector "nPlayer" at 22

Player {InstructLabel.nPlayer} roll  {InstructLabel.nDice:p:{} die|{} dice}

----------------------^

And, for completeness sake,

Code (CSharp):

1. using TMPro;
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEngine.Localization;
4.  
5. public class InstructLabel : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public LocalizedString localStringInstruct;
8.     public TMP_Text textComp;
9.  
10.     public int nPlayer;
11.     public int nDice;
12.     public void SetText(int player,int dice)
13.     {
14.         Debug.Log("InstructLabel.SetText(): player = "+player+"; nDice = "+dice);
15.  
16.         nPlayer = player;
17.         nDice = dice;
18.         localStringInstruct.RefreshString();
19.    
20.     }
21.     private void OnEnable()
22.     {
23.         localStringInstruct.StringChanged += UpdateText;
24.     }
25.     private void OnDisable()
26.     {
27.         localStringInstruct.StringChanged -= UpdateText;
28.     }
29.  
30.     public void UpdateText(string value)
31.     {
32.         textComp.text = value;
33.     }
34. }

 

I used the script component the current inspector was showing and it worked. It seems a bit self-referential, but I can't argue with success. Thanks for your help! (On a Sunday. Again.)