Re: sorting strings as integers

2004-06-23 Thread Michael Stassen
Ole Kasper Olsen wrote: Hi, I have a database column (VARCHAR) consisting of the following kind of data: 1 1.1 1.2.1.2 1.10.1 1.2 1.4.1 I need to sort this colum so that the result will be 1 1.1 1.2 1.2.1.2 1.4.1 1.10.1 I was hoping that just using "ORDER BY [column] ASC" would work, but alas,

Re: Sorting strings

2001-07-17 Thread Gerald Clark
Check the misc. functions section in the users manual 7.4.12 or thereabouts. Specifically INET_NTOA() and INET_ATON(). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have some large tables, which contain also IP-Adresses as strings. > Is there any workaround (which uses MySQL-functions) to sort strings a