Dan,
Thank you, that works! FYI, you can treat the field like a number,
including sorting, numeric functions, etc.
For example,
select * from table order by (text_field+0.0)
Steve Musumeche
CIO, Internet Retail Connection
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Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 28), Steve Musumeche said:
I think this method will work, however, when trying these queries, I get
a SQL syntax error.
mysql> select cast('34' AS decimal);
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
syntax to use near 'decimal)' at line 1
The CAST function in mysql 4.1 and older can't cast to DECIMAL. 5.0
and newer can. One easy way to convert strings to numbers in older
mysql's is to add 0 to them:
mysql> select ("1.10" + 0);
+------------+
| "1.10" + 0 |
+------------+
| 1.1 |
+------------+
