Humanizer.Core Convert Angle Directions to Words

Humanizer.Core provides a ToHeading() extension method that allows you to convert a numeric angle direction to words. The heading can be a double whereas the result will be a string.

Let's consider the following simple example.

public static void Example1()
{
    List<double> list = new List<double>()
    {
        0,
        90,
        180,
        225,
        270,
        360,
        720
    };

    foreach (var val in list)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} => {1}", val, val.ToHeading());
    }
}

Let's execute the above example and you will see the following output.

0 => N
90 => E
180 => S
225 => SW
270 => W
360 => N
720 => N

By default, the ToHeading() method returns a short representation (e.g. N, E, S, W), you can also get a full representation of the heading (e.g. north, east, south or west) just bypassing the HeadingStyle.Full as an argument as shown below.

public static void Example2()
{
    List<double> list = new List<double>()
    {
        0,
        90,
        180,
        225,
        270,
        360,
        720
    };

    foreach (var val in list)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} => {1}", val, val.ToHeading(HeadingStyle.Full));
    }
}

Let's execute the above example and you will see the following output.

0 => north
90 => east
180 => south
225 => southwest
270 => west
360 => north
720 => north

Humanizer.Core provides a ToHeadingArrow() extension method that returns a unicode arrow character (e.g. ↑, →, ↓, ←).

public static void Example3()
{
    List<double> list = new List<double>()
    {
        0,
        90,
        180,
        360
    };

    foreach (var val in list)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} => {1}", val, val.ToHeadingArrow());
    }
}

Let's execute the above example and you will see the following output.

0 => ↑
90 => →
180 => ↓
360 => ↑