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Just thought I'd pass along what I found that does the job for me. Thanx everyone.
*!*****************************************************************
*!*
*!* Function-> ORDINAL
*!*
*!*****************************************************************
*!* FOR x = 1 TO 1010
*!* ? TRANSFORM(x) + fordinal(x)
*!* ENDFOR
FUNCTION ordinal(inumber)
LOCAL ret_val
ret_val = IIF(!BETWEEN(inumber, 11, 13) AND BETWEEN(MOD(inumber,10), 1, 3), SUBSTR("stndrd", (MOD(inumber,10) * 2) -1, 2), "th")
RETURN ret_val
ENDFUNC
>I didn't want to reinvent the wheel so I thought I'd ask first. Does anyone have a utility to convert a number to a word that represents a position? For example.
>
>1 to "1st" (or "First")
>2 to "2nd" (or "Second")
>3 to "3rd" (or "Third")
>4 to "4th" (or "Fourth")
>5 to "5th" (or "Fifth") etc. etc.
>
>I've seen some other number to word conversions, but they weren't exactly what I was looking for.
>
>TIA
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