Re: English Date-Suffixes

[cLive ;-)]

in reply to English Date-Suffixes

You can get it down another 6 chars to 41 by a little rewriting, and the $ in the regex and final semi-colon aren't needed:

shift;/1\d/?0:qw(0 st nd rd)[$_%10]or'th'

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cLive ;-)

[BrowserUk]

If you can live with the risk of the sub stomping on the callers copy of $_ by not localising it, then you could trim a couple more keystrokes by using pop instead of shift, and you also can trim the regex by another 1

pop;/1./?0:qw(0 st nd rd)[$_%10]or'th'

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Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy

[petral]

Is this what you want? (Neither pop nor shift load $_ by defalult -- they just default to using @_ in a sub or @ARGV in the main prog.)

$_=pop;qw(0 st nd rd)[!/1./&&$_%10]or'th'



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