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Re: "Natural" Sort
Posted by: Kanwal Khipple
Date: July 19, 2005 07:48PM

John Winter wrote:
> Sorry, it is my query, should be:
>
> SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY CAST(mid(name, 6,
> LENGTH(name) -5) AS unsigned)
>
> You have to order it from the 6th character on as
> an integer.


The name can have more then 6 alphanumeric characters.
How do I get around that?

As clearly the 6 and -5 are specific on the length of name to equal 6


Kanwal

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