Re: Natural sort

From: <mh_at_pixar.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:25:11 GMT
Message-ID: <rr8Lk.6001$YU2.4232@nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com>


DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> But, quite frankly, if what you are
> asking is the case then the data should be stored in two separate
> columns.

There might be at least one case where this is useful... filenames.

Right now I cavalierly present some lists of filenames from a table in "non-natural" order, but I'm going to look into switching to natural order with this trick.

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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios
Received on Mon Oct 20 2008 - 18:25:11 CDT

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