NSNumberFormatter and 'th' 'st' 'nd' 'rd' (ordinal) number endings

Question

Is there a way to use NSNumberFormatter to get the 'th' 'st' 'nd' 'rd' number endings?

EDIT:

Looks like it does not exist. Here's what I'm using.

+(NSString*)ordinalNumberFormat:(NSInteger)num{     NSString *ending;      int ones = num % 10;     int tens = floor(num / 10);     tens = tens % 10;     if(tens == 1){         ending = @"th";     }else {         switch (ones) {             case 1:                 ending = @"st";                 break;             case 2:                 ending = @"nd";                 break;             case 3:                 ending = @"rd";                 break;             default:                 ending = @"th";                 break;         }     }     return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d%@", num, ending]; } 

Adapted from nickf's answer here Is there an easy way in .NET to get "st", "nd", "rd" and "th" endings for numbers?

Answer 1

The correct way to do this from iOS 9 onwards, is:

NSNumberFormatter *numberFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init]; numberFormatter.numberStyle = NSNumberFormatterOrdinalStyle;  NSLog(@"%@", [numberFormatter stringFromNumber:@(1)]); // 1st NSLog(@"%@", [numberFormatter stringFromNumber:@(2)]); // 2nd NSLog(@"%@", [numberFormatter stringFromNumber:@(3)]); // 3rd, etc. 

Alternatively:

NSLog(@"%@", [NSString localizedStringFromNumber:@(1)                                      numberStyle:NSNumberFormatterOrdinalStyle]); // 1st 

Answer 2

This does the trick in one method (for English). Thanks nickf https://stackoverflow.com/a/69284/1208690 for original code in PHP, I just adapted it to objective C:-

-(NSString *) addSuffixToNumber:(int) number {     NSString *suffix;     int ones = number % 10;     int tens = (number/10) % 10;      if (tens ==1) {         suffix = @"th";     } else if (ones ==1){         suffix = @"st";     } else if (ones ==2){         suffix = @"nd";     } else if (ones ==3){         suffix = @"rd";     } else {         suffix = @"th";     }      NSString * completeAsString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d%@", number, suffix];     return completeAsString; }