Question

In Objective C, is there any way to format an integer to ordinals
1 => “1st”, 2 => “2nd” etc… that works for any language?
So if the user is French he will see “1er”, “2ieme” etc..

Thanks a lot!

Edit:
This is for an iOs app

Answer 1

Have you taken a look at TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter which is in FormatterKit? It works great, and I’m pretty sure it’s exactly what you’re looking for.

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Here’s an example taken from the kit:

TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter *ordinalNumberFormatter = [[TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[ordinalNumberFormatter setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
[ordinalNumberFormatter setGrammaticalGender:TTTOrdinalNumberFormatterMaleGender];
NSNumber *number = [NSNumber numberWithInteger:2];
NSLog(@"%@", [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"You came in %@ place!", nil), [ordinalNumberFormatter stringFromNumber:number]]);

Assuming you’ve provided localized strings for “You came in %@ place!”, the output would be:

* English: "You came in 2nd place!"
* French: "Vous êtes venu à la 2eme place!"
* Spanish: "Usted llegó en 2.o lugar!"