Do i need to use regex?

[Anon]

I would like to print today is the 81st day of the year, the problem I have is getting the suffix right, will I have to use regular expresions to add the right suffix?
TIA,
Jim

[yelvington]

Not necessarily.

What you need to do is create a table relating digits to suffixes, and conditionally insert the appropriate suffix.

You could do it with an array. Something like:

// make an array of suffixes for numbers
$suffix = array('th','st','nd','rd','th','th','th','th','th','th');

// pick a number, any number
$mynumber = 240;

//
echo "Today is the ", $mynumber, $suffix[substr($mynumber,-1)], " day of the year.";

You can obtain the rightmost column from any large number by using substr() because PHP internally stores all values as strings.

[Anon]

Thanks Steve works like a charm!
Jim