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

Question

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• Is there an easy way to create ordinals in C#? 18 answers

I am wondering if there is a method or format string I'm missing in .NET to convert the following:

   1 to 1st
   2 to 2nd
   3 to 3rd
   4 to 4th
  11 to 11th
 101 to 101st
 111 to 111th

This link has a bad example of the basic principle involved in writing your own function, but I am more curious if there is an inbuilt capacity I'm missing.

Solution

Scott Hanselman's answer is the accepted one because it answers the question directly.

For a solution however, see this great answer.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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 3

@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 4

Simple, clean, quick

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

Or better yet, as an extension method

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

Now you can just call

int a = 1;
a.DisplayWithSuffix(); 

or even as direct as

1.DisplayWithSuffix();

Answer 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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...