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for ($rank=0; $rank<100; $rank++) { printf("Your rank: %d%s", $rank, $suffix); }

Does there exist a gettext function to localize $suffix to the current language and return, for example: 

Your rank: 0th
Your rank: 1st
Your rank: 2nd
Your rank: 3rd
Your rank: 4th

if the current locale is English, and whatever the correct "ordinal" forms of numbers are in other languages when the locale is set to something else?

Thank you.

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Not that I know of, but you can use NumberFormatter

$nf = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::ORDINAL);
print $nf->format(123); // prints 123rd

Source:

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  • I don't know if I've discovered a bug in PHP or the Swedish language pack, but doing this for sv_SE or sv_FI for 1 returns "1:e%digits-ordinal-neutre:0: 1:a" Or am I missing an additional argument? – Lucent Aug 14 '10 at 13:30