Will Seitz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am probably missing something obvious in the documentation, but how do I
> convert a string to an integer in mysql. I am sorting on a substring
> (String-Number) and want the substring sorted as an integer and not a string.
> 
> database, sql, query
> 
> Thanks,
> -Will Seitz
> 
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select substring(strnumb,5)+0 as subnum from mytable order by subnum;

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