method

ordinal

v4.2.9 - Show latest stable - Class: ActiveSupport::Inflector

ordinal(number)

public

Returns the suffix that should be added to a number to denote the position in an ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

ordinal(1)     # => "st"
ordinal(2)     # => "nd"
ordinal(1002)  # => "nd"
ordinal(1003)  # => "rd"
ordinal(-11)   # => "th"
ordinal(-1021) # => "st"

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb, line 320
    def ordinal(number)
      abs_number = number.to_i.abs

      if (11..13).include?(abs_number % 100)
        "th"
      else
        case abs_number % 10
          when 1; "st"
          when 2; "nd"
          when 3; "rd"
          else    "th"
        end
      end
    end

ordinal

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