SQL : Order by for varchar ???

From: Apps Sol <apps_sol_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:10:03 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00320920.20010607095616@fatcity.com>

One of our developers was looking for solution for his problem ..

Any idea folks .. ??

He wants to sort his data asc or desc for a varchar column ..

1> create table test(width varchar2(20));

2>

insert into  test values('5/8"');
insert into  test values('4"');
insert into  test values('3/4"');

insert into test values('2"');
insert into test values('1-1/2"');
insert into test values('1"');

3>
select width from test order by width DESC;  

5/8"
3/4"
1"
1-1/2"
2"
4"

Cheers
RK
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