UPDATE: My code below of course has an error (I wrote it to test the perceptive skills of the community ;-)) anyway, Philip Reick commented with a more credible version:
Hmm.. my bet is you came across it again after forgetting it because you threw it away. It would return the wrong result for inputs like "42", "123", "101", etc. I've done that a lot - I save code for some reason even when it's incorrect (like, its the vendor supplied code, or it has some trick in it), then a year later I find it and have to test it all over again because I didn't record WHY I saved it. Useless way to save things, but I have a few bad habits.
Here's one I use often (well, sorta - it's off the top of the head, no compiler here)
private static string GetOrdinal(int number)
{
int place = number % 10;
if( place > 3) return "th";
//special case for teens
int teen = number % 100;
if(teen < 20 && teen > 10)
{
return "th";
}
if( place == 1) return "st";
if( place == 2) return "nd";
if( place == 3) return "rd";
return "th";
OK, not the most complex piece of code on the planet, came across it when reinstalling my broken machine.It strikes me as something the Framework may have built in, but I couldn't locate it...Anyway, given an integer, this snippet will return a string with the correct ordinal.
THIS CODE IS INCORRECT! Retained for amusement purposes only :0(
public class OrdinalNumber
{
public static string GetOrdinal(int Number)
{
try
{
string numStr = Number.ToString();
// Accepts an integer, returns the ordinal suffix
// special case three digit numbers ending
// with 11, 12 or 13 - ie, 111th, 112th, 113th, 211th, et al
if (numStr.Length > 2 )
{
int intEndNum = Convert.ToInt32(numStr.Substring(numStr.Length - 2, 2));
if ( intEndNum >= 11 && intEndNum <= 13 ) return "th";
}
if ( Number >= 21 && Number <=23)
{
// 21st, 22nd, 23rd, et al
switch (Convert.ToInt32(numStr.Substring(numStr.Length - 1, 1)))
{
case 1: return "st";
case 2: return "nd";
case 3: return "rd";
default: return "th";
}
}
else if(Number >=1 && Number <=3)
{
// 1st to 20th
switch (Number)
{
case 1: return "st";
case 2: return "nd";
case 3: return "rd";
default: return "th";
}
}
else
{
return "th";
}
}
catch(Exception)
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
}