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

Answer 1

@nickf: Here is the PHP function in C#:

public static string Ordinal(int number)
{
    string suffix = String.Empty;

    int ones = number % 10;
    int tens = (int)Math.Floor(number / 10M) % 10;

    if (tens == 1)
    {
        suffix = "th";
    }
    else
    {
        switch (ones)
        {
            case 1:
                suffix = "st";
                break;

            case 2:
                suffix = "nd";
                break;

            case 3:
                suffix = "rd";
                break;

            default:
                suffix = "th";
                break;
        }
    }
    return String.Format("{0}{1}", number, suffix);
}

Answer 2

Another flavor:

/// <summary>
/// Extension methods for numbers
/// </summary>
public static class NumericExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Adds the ordinal indicator to an integer
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="number">The number</param>
    /// <returns>The formatted number</returns>
    public static string ToOrdinalString(this int number)
    {
        // Numbers in the teens always end with "th"

        if((number % 100 > 10 && number % 100 < 20))
            return number + "th";
        else
        {
            // Check remainder

            switch(number % 10)
            {
                case 1:
                    return number + "st";

                case 2:
                    return number + "nd";

                case 3:
                    return number + "rd";

                default:
                    return number + "th";
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

public static string OrdinalSuffix(int ordinal)
{
    //Because negatives won't work with modular division as expected:
    var abs = Math.Abs(ordinal); 

    var lastdigit = abs % 10; 

    return 
        //Catch 60% of cases (to infinity) in the first conditional:
        lastdigit > 3 || lastdigit == 0 || (abs % 100) - lastdigit == 10 ? "th" 
            : lastdigit == 1 ? "st" 
            : lastdigit == 2 ? "nd" 
            : "rd";
}

Answer 4

I think the ordinal suffix is hard to get... you basically have to write a function that uses a switch to test the numbers and add the suffix.

There's no reason for a language to provide this internally, especially when it's locale specific.

You can do a bit better than that link when it comes to the amount of code to write, but you have to code a function for this...

Answer 5

Simple, clean, quick

    private static string GetOrdinalSuffix(int num)
    {
        string number = num.ToString();
        if (number.EndsWith("11")) return "th";
        if (number.EndsWith("12")) return "th";
        if (number.EndsWith("13")) return "th";
        if (number.EndsWith("1")) return "st";
        if (number.EndsWith("2")) return "nd";
        if (number.EndsWith("3")) return "rd";
        return "th";
    }

Or better yet, as an extension method

public static class IntegerExtensions
{
    public static string DisplayWithSuffix(this int num)
    {
        string number = num.ToString();
        if (number.EndsWith("11")) return number + "th";
        if (number.EndsWith("12")) return number + "th";
        if (number.EndsWith("13")) return number + "th";
        if (number.EndsWith("1")) return number + "st";
        if (number.EndsWith("2")) return number + "nd";
        if (number.EndsWith("3")) return number + "rd";
        return number + "th";
    }
}

Now you can just call

int a = 1;
a.DisplayWithSuffix(); 

or even as direct as

1.DisplayWithSuffix();