work with end number

[penguinspeaks]

Hello gang, I hope all is well in your world.

I want to be able to work with the end digit in the days of the year, and have an if/then to make it be a nd, st, rd, ect.

So it would read "This is the 222nd day of the year."
I have the code to get the day of the year using

<%=DateDiff("d",DateSerial(Year(Now),1,1),Date)%>

I just need to add the suffix variable somehow.

Any ideas??

 

[ChrisHirst]

How about;

Function addOrdinalString(p_iVal)
  sNum = cStr(p_iVal)
  iNum = p_iVal mod 10
  select case iNum
    case 1
      sOrd = "st"
    case 2
      sOrd = "nd"
    case 3
      sOrd = "rd"
    case else '4,5,6,7,8,9,0
      sOrd = "th"
  end select
  ' deal with the teens
    if p_iVal > 10 and p_iVal <20 then sOrd = "th"
  sNum = sNum & sOrd
  addOrdinalString = sNum
End Function

It was only intended to handle 1 to 31 (for obvious reasons) but should tweak for > 100 upwards with a bit of code to strip off the first character (the hundreds) from p_iVal if > 99, add the ordinal, then concatenate the leading character back on.

I would do that myself but I don't have a Windows machine to test on, plus it's 4:AM and I'm running on tea and Ginger Nuts.


Chris.

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[penguinspeaks]

lol, get some sleep dude!!

I will try this in the morning as I am heading to bed. Since the stroke, I sleep at least 10 hours a night.

Thanks a ton and I will let you know of the outcome.

 

[penguinspeaks]

Could not get it to work. I will try more tomorrow when I have more time