i *think* it's what you typed between the ??'s.
try that out.
Chris Olive
DOHRS Website Administrator
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From: Ryan Shrout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:34 PM
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Sorry to bother again, but can you type an example one with the substring?
<CFQUERY Datasource="DataSource" Name="Myname">
SELECT ID, Name, Title (Title is in a TEXT format)
FROM MyTable
ORDER BY ??substring(Title, 1, 10)?? ASC
</CFQUERY>
-Ryan Shrout
Power Gamerz; K7M.COM
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Subject: RE: Ordering by TEXT
> take a substring(1,10) of the text field, alias it, and order by that.
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