Re: Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)
Re: Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)
- Subject: Re: Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)
- From: "Greg Back" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:36:22 -0400
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At 12:03 PM -0400 18/08/01, Arthur J Knapp wrote:
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> (My excuse? Well, you see, on my planet, 101 would be "One Hundred
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>and Oneth"... )
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Really?!?!?! What planet are you writing from? In the higher
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latitudes of the Americas it's "One Hundred and First" (which will
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soon be the ordinal for some post in this thread). Does this mean we
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need both Oxford and Webster versions of the handler? Or a dialog in
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which to make the choice, eh? :-)
As I said before, SPEED is the key issue here. If you really want to know,
-------------->SCRIPT ;)
tell application "Outlook Express"
set numberOfPosts to (count of (messages in folder "Applescript" of folder
"Inbox" whose subject contains "Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)"))
end tell
addNumericSuffix(numberOfPosts) -- This is Nigel's version!!! (I think-
there are way too many different versions)
on addNumericSuffix(thisNum)
set {tens, units} to {thisNum mod 100 div 10, thisNum mod 10}
if units is in {1, 2, 3} and tens is not 1 then
item units of {"st", "nd", "rd"}
else
"th"
end if
return "" & thisNum & result
end addNumericSuffix
-->39th (After Bill's)(By my count, I'm on digest)(I think. I might have
lost count)(Too bad I couldn't actually USE this script.)
-------------->END SCRIPT
Could someone actually run this script and figure out using AS. Digest mode
isn't kind to those trying to find messages. =(
Greg