{"id":40,"date":"2007-05-02T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/flash-actionscript-date-suffix-code\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:21:29","slug":"flash-actionscript-date-suffix-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/flash-actionscript-date-suffix-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash ActionScript Date Suffix Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve become fairly familiar with the Flash Date object and thought I’d share some handy code showing how to append the proper suffix to a date or any other number. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, a “number suffix” or “ordinal indicator” is the string of letters that follows a number to help make it more human readable. For example the number suffix “nd” makes “May 2nd, 2007” a little easier to read than “May 2, 2007”.<\/p>\n

Here’s the code I wrote to handle all my numeric and date suffix needs:<\/p>\n

\/\/<\/span>
\nfunction<\/span> getNumberSuffix(<\/span>num)<\/span>{<\/span>
\n    if<\/span>(<\/span>num == 0<\/span>)<\/span>return<\/span> ""<\/span>;
\n    if<\/span>(<\/span>Math<\/span>.floor<\/span>(<\/span>num\/<\/span>10<\/span>)<\/span>%<\/span>10===1<\/span>)<\/span>return<\/span> "th"<\/span>;
\n    num %<\/span>= 10<\/span>;
\n    if<\/span>(<\/span>num><\/span>3<\/span> ||<\/span> num===0<\/span>)<\/span> return<\/span> "th"<\/span>;
\n    if<\/span>(<\/span>num===1<\/span>)<\/span>return<\/span> "st"<\/span>;
\n    if<\/span>(<\/span>num===2<\/span>)<\/span>return<\/span> "nd"<\/span>;
\n    return<\/span> "rd"<\/span>;
\n}<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span>
\nfor<\/span>(<\/span>var<\/span> i=0<\/span>; i><\/span>120<\/span>; i++)<\/span>{<\/span>
\n    trace<\/span>(<\/span>i+getNumberSuffix(<\/span>i)<\/span>)<\/span>;
\n}<\/span>
\n\/\/<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

And here are the trace results:<\/p>\n

0
\n1st
\n2nd
\n3rd
\n4th
\n5th
\n6th
\n7th
\n8th
\n9th
\n10th
\n11th
\n12th
\n13th
\n14th
\n15th
\n16th
\n17th
\n18th
\n19th
\n20th
\n21st
\n22nd
\n23rd
\n24th
\n25th
\n26th
\n27th
\n28th
\n29th
\n30th
\n31st
\n32nd
\n33rd
\n34th
\n35th
\n36th
\n37th
\n38th
\n39th
\n40th
\n41st
\n42nd
\n43rd
\n44th
\n45th
\n46th
\n47th
\n48th
\n49th
\n50th
\n51st
\n52nd
\n53rd
\n54th
\n55th
\n56th
\n57th
\n58th
\n59th
\n60th
\n61st
\n62nd
\n63rd
\n64th
\n65th
\n66th
\n67th
\n68th
\n69th
\n70th
\n71st
\n72nd
\n73rd
\n74th
\n75th
\n76th
\n77th
\n78th
\n79th
\n80th
\n81st
\n82nd
\n83rd
\n84th
\n85th
\n86th
\n87th
\n88th
\n89th
\n90th
\n91st
\n92nd
\n93rd
\n94th
\n95th
\n96th
\n97th
\n98th
\n99th
\n100th
\n101st
\n102nd
\n103rd
\n104th
\n105th
\n106th
\n107th
\n108th
\n109th
\n110th
\n111th
\n112th
\n113th
\n114th
\n115th
\n116th
\n117th
\n118th
\n119th<\/div><\/div>\n

Hope you find it helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ActionScript code used to determine the proper ordinal or numeral suffix (i,e, st, nd, rd, th) to append to any number. For example 112 returns “th” while 122 returns “nd”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,47],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","tag-actionscript","tag-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}