Claire Lee wrote: > I need to order a few names by the number following > the main name. For example swap2, swap3, swap10 in the > order of swap2, swap3, swap10, not in swap10, swap2, > swap3 as it will happen when I do an order by.
... ORDER BY ABS(SUBSTRING(secname,5)) ... will insure that the trailing digits are treated as numbers :-) > +----------+------------+ > | secname | date | > +----------+------------+ > | SWAP0.25 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP0.5 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP1 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP10 | 2005-09-26 | > | SWAP10 | 2005-09-23 | > | SWAP10 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP2 | 2005-09-26 | > | SWAP2 | 2005-09-23 | > | SWAP2 | 2005-09-22 | > | SWAP2 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP3 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP3 | 2005-09-26 | > | SWAP3 | 2005-09-23 | > | SWAP3 | 2005-09-22 | > | SWAP5 | 2005-09-21 | > | SWAP5 | 2005-09-26 | > | SWAP5 | 2005-09-23 | > | SWAP5 | 2005-09-22 | > +----------+------------+ HTH, -- Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
