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Hi, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to add an ordinal suffix to a number?

I have an integer parameter that will count up to infinity, but we need to be able to add the ordinal suffix on these numbers.

I found a piece of Javascript online, but I'm not sure how to translate it for use in Dashboard. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks

function getGetOrdinal(n) {
var s=["th","st","nd","rd"],
v=n%100;
return n+(s[(v-20)%10]||s[v]||s[0]);
}

My recommendation would be to create a string parameter to hold your completed version. Whenever your numeric value changes, pass its value to your getGetOrdinal function and set your string value to what it returns.

<abs contexttype="opengear">
   <meta>
      <params>
         <param access="1" constrainttype="INT_NULL" name="Number Entry" oid="p.entry" precision="0" type="INT16" value="0" widget="default"/>
         <param access="1" maxlength="0" name="Number Display" oid="p.display" type="STRING" value="0th" widget="label"/>
      </params>
   </meta>
   <meta>
      <api>function getGetOrdinal(n) 
{
   var s=["th","st","nd","rd"],
   v=n%100;
   return n+(s[(v-20)%10]||s[v]||s[0]);
}</api>
   </meta>
   <param expand="true" height="55" left="23" oid="p.entry" runtasksonload="true" showlabel="false" top="20" width="146">
      <task tasktype="ogscript">params.setValue('p.display', 0, getGetOrdinal(params.getValue('p.entry', 0)));</task>
   </param>
   <param expand="true" height="57" left="198" oid="p.display" showlabel="false" style="bdr:etched;bg#dark;txt-align:center;size:Big;font:bold;" top="19" width="150"/>
</abs>

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Perfect, thanks so much James!
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Trying to wrap my head around this script. How does it decide on the proper suffix? Where does it decide that 52 needs an "nd" and 53 needs "rd"?
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Admittedly, I don't quite understand it either. The only explanation from the site I found it on is:

function getGetOrdinal(n) {
var s=["th","st","nd","rd"],
v=n%100;
return n+(s[(v-20)%10]||s[v]||s[0]);
}

A. find s[v%10] if >= 20 (20th...99th), B. if not found, try s[v] (0th..3rd), C. if still not found, use s[0] (4th..19th)

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