Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:25:42 +0100, Ralph Corderoy said: > Is -42nd handled? I admit being totally mystified as to what situations require proper handling of negative ordinals pgpM4SES7TBLk.pgp Description: PGP signature -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
>Is -42nd handled? You know where the source code is, Ralph. Have at it. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Hi,
Is -42nd handled? IIRC we demand C99 so we know rounding is towards
zero. But C's remainder operator, ‘%’, returns the sign of the
dividend, unlike modulo. And then there's two's complement so INT_MIN
can't be made positive.
$ for a in ' -' ' '; do
> for b in ' -' ' '; do
> fmttest -raw \
> -format "%(num${a}42) /${b}10 = %(divide${b}10)\t%(num${a}42)
%%${b}10 = %(modulo${b}10)" ''
> done
> done
-42 / -10 = 4 -42 % -10 = -2
-42 / 10 = -4 -42 % 10 = -2
42 / -10 = -4 42 % -10 = 2
42 / 10 = 4 42 % 10 = 2
$
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Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
> Geez, you could have just SAID that Now where would be the fun in that. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
>The point is, that if you're going to add this, you should do it >correctly, not just any random code that looks close. Geez, you could have just SAID that (ok, fine, you DID say that, but ... oh, never mind). I missed that part in your examples. Anyway, fixed! --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Ken, Ralph is being overly subtle (or perhaps I could use another word...) The point is, that if you're going to add this, you should do it correctly, not just any random code that looks close. kre ps: Hint: 11st is not correct. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Hi Ken, > > Were you paying attention to kre's sh and my sed? :-) > > I mean ... yeah? Steal from the best, and all that! I had a few free > minutes, I thought, "Oh, huh, nmh SHOULD have a function to output the > ordinal string for dates and such", and I though it should be pretty > easy and it was. Yep, you certainly made it look easy compared to kre and me. And it saved me raising a bug to say it wasn't implemented. BTW, when would you say peak caffeine is reached in your day? -- Cheers, Ralph. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
>Were you paying attention to kre's sh and my sed? :-) I mean ... yeah? Steal from the best, and all that! I had a few free minutes, I thought, "Oh, huh, nmh SHOULD have a function to output the ordinal string for dates and such", and I though it should be pretty easy and it was. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Hi Ken,
> > This is true. To correct that, I note mh-format(5) too has no
> > function to produce the ordinal suffix. :-)
>
> Fixed.
Impressively quick work.
+ int digit = value % 10;
+ const char *suffix;
+
+ switch (digit) {
+ case 1:
+ suffix = "st";
+ break;
+ case 2:
+ suffix = "nd";
+ break;
+ case 3:
+ suffix = "rd";
+ break;
+ default:
+ suffix = "th";
+ }
Were you paying attention to kre's sh and my sed? :-)
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Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
>This is true. To correct that, I note mh-format(5) too has no function >to produce the ordinal suffix. :-) Fixed. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Hi kre, > D=$(date +%d) > case "$D" in > [023]1) ORD=st;; > [02]2) ORD=nd;; > [02]3) ORD=rd;; > *) ORD=th;; > esac > case "$D" in > 0*) SP=;; > *) SP=' ';; > esac I ended up with $ cat ~/bin/ordsuff #! /bin/sed -rf # Append an ordinal indicator to the number on each line. s/1$// s/2$// s/3$// s/[4-9]$// s/.0$// /1(1st|2nd|3rd)$/s/..$/th/ $ > ps: this is not really an nmh-workers issue! This is true. To correct that, I note mh-format(5) too has no function to produce the ordinal suffix. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Date:Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:37:10 +0100
From:Ralph Corderoy
Message-ID: <20190708103710.86f3121...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
| I had a need today to have date(1) produce 8th for today
Yes, strftime() has no ordinals, and (as best I understand it) locales
don't either. To get them you need to code it yourself
D=$(date +%d)
case "$D" in
[023]1) ORD=st;;
[02]2) ORD=nd;;
[02]3) ORD=rd;;
*) ORD=th;;
esac
case "$D" in
0*) SP=;;
*) SP=' ';;
esac
and then deal with internationalising that for yourself... (good luck).
Then
date "+%A, the${SP}%e${ORD} of %B"
or whatever.
kre
ps: this is not really an nmh-workers issue!
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Re: [nmh-workers] Ordinal Indicators.
Hi kre, > LC_TIME says how time (of day) is represented (d/m/y m/d/y, 12 or 24 > hour, etc) I had a need today to have date(1) produce ‘8th’ for today and find its interpreted sequences don't support the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator, but then neither does POSIX's LC_TIME, it seems. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
