Module:Sandbox/Batternut/Ordinal Explained

-- vim: set noexpandtab ft=lua ts=4 sw=4:require('strict')

local o = local debug = false

--makeOrdinal|target_num|}}

Parameters 1: The string whose length to report 2: the language code

If invoked using named parameters, Mediawiki will automatically remove any leading ortrailing whitespace from the target string.

function o.makeOrdinal(target_num, langcode) if langcode

'fr' then if target_num

1 then return target_num .. 'er' else return target_num .. 'e' end elseif langcode

'en' then if target_num

11 or target_num

12 or target_num

13 then return target_num .. 'th' elseif target_num % 10

1 then return target_num .. 'st' elseif target_num % 10

2 then return target_num .. 'nd' elseif target_num % 10

3 then return target_num .. 'rd' else return target_num .. 'th' end else return target_num .. '.' endend

return o