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,

sorting strings as integers

2004-06-23 Thread Ole Kasper Olsen
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, it only works for numbe

Re: Sorting strings

2001-07-17 Thread Gerald Clark
sort strings as > numbers ? > Because, when i sort the records, the order is always 1.1.1.1; 1.1.1.10; > 1.1.1.2. (which is correct if i'm sorting strings...) > But i need the result : 1.1.1.1; 1.1.1.2; 1.1.1.10... > > There is no possibility to change the IP-

Sorting strings

2001-07-17 Thread Daniel . Kurucz
Hi, I have some large tables, which contain also IP-Adresses as strings. Is there any workaround (which uses MySQL-functions) to sort strings as numbers ? Because, when i sort the records, the order is always 1.1.1.1; 1.1.1.10; 1.1.1.2. (which is correct if i'm sorting strings...) But i nee