http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:10:37 GMT DZone Snippets: numbers code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2368 This snippet will extend all numerical types with a method for returning the English ordinal, i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. <br /> <br /><code> <br />class Numeric <br /> def ordinal <br /> cardinal = self.to_i.abs <br /> if (10...20).include?(cardinal) then <br /> cardinal.to_s << 'th' <br /> else <br /> cardinal.to_s << %w{th st nd rd th th th th th th}[cardinal % 10] <br /> end <br /> end <br />end <br /> <br />[1, 22, 123, 10, -3.1415].collect { |i| i.ordinal } <br />=> ["1st", "22nd", "123rd", "10th", "3rd"] <br /></code> <br /> <br />This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:46:04 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2368 jswizard (JavaScript Wizard)