On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:36:00PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I would like all those on the same street grouped together. Is there any > tricks to getting the street names sorted first, possibly where numbers > and strings separate?
You could do something like CREATE FUNCTION streetname(text) RETURNS text AS ' SELECT substring($1 FROM ''[a-zA-Z ]+$'') ' LANGUAGE 'SQL'; and then add an ORDER BY streetname(address) to your select. Richard ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])