Fairly Useless…

Here a quick little function for ordinal numbers using actionscript. I didn’t even know they were called ordinal numbers! I found some snippet of perl and converted it to AS for Flash.
function ordinal(number) {
if (number%100>10 && number%100<14) {
suffix = "th";
} else {
switch (number%10) {
case 0 :
suffix = "th";
break;
case 1 :
suffix = "st";
break;
case 2 :
suffix = "nd";
break;
case 3 :
suffix = "rd";
break;
default :
suffix = "th";
break;
}
}
return number+suffix;
}

// usage
trace (ordinal(25));
Produces: 25th

Useful for pretty dates.