Rhino wrote: > Be careful when reading those lists! When I looked at page 3 in the English > PDF, it said it was in numeric order and the list showed all the countries > that use country code 1, then country 20 (Egypt), then country 210 (spare) > *without* showing 55 (Brazil). Page 6 shows countries 500 through 509, then > 51 through 58, and so on. Therefore, Brazil doesn't appear until Page 6. > They have obviously chosen to sort the list only on the FIRST DIGIT of the > country code; that's a pretty odd form of numerical order, in my opinion!
That's not normal numerical order of course, but it's exactly the order you need if you're parsing a phone number where you don't know beforehand how many digits are the country code. I suppose you could call it alphabetical order, only it's applied to digits instead of letters. Björn Persson -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
