Objective-C: format numbers to ordinals: 1, 2, 3, .. to 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Question

In Objective C, is there any way to format an integer to ordinals 1 => \"1st\", 2 => \"2nd\" etc... that works for any language? So if the user

Answer 1

The solution is immediately available from NSNumberFormatter:

- (NSString *)getOrdinalStringFromInteger:(NSInteger)integer
{
    NSNumberFormatter *formatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
    [formatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterOrdinalStyle];
    return [formatter stringFromNumber:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:integer]];
}