RE: Order By Character Column

From: Ian Cary <Ian.Cary_at_ons.gsi.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:00:06 +0100
Message-ID: <OFCE779431.B530C31A-ON80256F3C.00407477-80256F3C.0041ED62@ons.gov.uk>

This seems to work (using the varchar :) definition of Mark's table) - although I am assuming that values like '......' and '1.1.1' aren't allowed

Cheers,

Ian

select * from sort_test;

A

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B
A
20
11
7
7.3
70

select a
from sort_test
order by
decode(rtrim(translate(a,'0123456789.','00000000000'),'0'),null,to_number(a)),a;

A

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7
7.3
11
20
70
A
B

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Received on Fri Oct 29 2004 - 06:55:41 CDT