Is there an easy way in .NET to get “st”, “nd”, “rd” and “th” endings for numbers? [duplicate]

Answer 1

It's a function which is a lot simpler than you think. Though there might be a .NET function already in existence for this, the following function (written in PHP) does the job. It shouldn't be too hard to port it over.

function ordinal($num) {
    $ones = $num % 10;
    $tens = floor($num / 10) % 10;
    if ($tens == 1) {
        $suff = "th";
    } else {
        switch ($ones) {
            case 1 : $suff = "st"; break;
            case 2 : $suff = "nd"; break;
            case 3 : $suff = "rd"; break;
            default : $suff = "th";
        }
    }
    return $num . $suff;
}

Answer 2

I know this isn't an answer to the OP's question, but because I found it useful to lift the SQL Server function from this thread, here is a Delphi (Pascal) equivalent:

function OrdinalNumberSuffix(const ANumber: integer): string;
begin
  Result := IntToStr(ANumber);
  if(((Abs(ANumber) div 10) mod 10) = 1) then // Tens = 1
    Result := Result + 'th'
  else
    case(Abs(ANumber) mod 10) of
      1: Result := Result + 'st';
      2: Result := Result + 'nd';
      3: Result := Result + 'rd';
      else
        Result := Result + 'th';
    end;
end;

Does ..., -1st, 0th make sense?

Answer 3

else if (choice=='q')
{
    qtr++;

    switch (qtr)
    {
        case(2): strcpy(qtrs,"nd");break;
        case(3):
        {
           strcpy(qtrs,"rd");
           cout<<"End of First Half!!!";
           cout<<" hteam "<<"["<<hteam<<"] "<<hs;
           cout<<" vteam "<<" ["<<vteam;
           cout<<"] ";
           cout<<vs;dwn=1;yd=10;

           if (beginp=='H') team='V';
           else             team='H';
           break;
       }
       case(4): strcpy(qtrs,"th");break;

Answer 4

This has already been covered but I'm unsure how to link to it. Here is the code snippit:

    public static string Ordinal(this int number)
    {
        var ones = number % 10;
        var tens = Math.Floor (number / 10f) % 10;
        if (tens == 1)
        {
            return number + "th";
        }

        switch (ones)
        {
            case 1: return number + "st";
            case 2: return number + "nd";
            case 3: return number + "rd";
            default: return number + "th";
        }
    }

FYI: This is as an extension method. If your .NET version is less than 3.5 just remove the this keyword

[EDIT]: Thanks for pointing that it was incorrect, that's what you get for copy / pasting code :)

Answer 5

Here's a Microsoft SQL Server Function version:

CREATE FUNCTION [Internal].[GetNumberAsOrdinalString]
(
    @num int
)
RETURNS nvarchar(max)
AS
BEGIN

    DECLARE @Suffix nvarchar(2);
    DECLARE @Ones int;  
    DECLARE @Tens int;

    SET @Ones = @num % 10;
    SET @Tens = FLOOR(@num / 10) % 10;

    IF @Tens = 1
    BEGIN
        SET @Suffix = 'th';
    END
    ELSE
    BEGIN

    SET @Suffix = 
        CASE @Ones
            WHEN 1 THEN 'st'
            WHEN 2 THEN 'nd'
            WHEN 3 THEN 'rd'
            ELSE 'th'
        END
    END

    RETURN CONVERT(nvarchar(max), @num) + @Suffix;
END

Answer 6

No, there is no inbuilt capability in the .NET Base Class Library.