Hi, I am attempting to do a "natural sort" from within mysql, if possible. So, for example, jane2 would come before jane10, and normal strings would still sort as expected. I found some solutions, like using length for the numerical part, but that only works if the strings are the same length. Ideally, I would like to use substring_index, but stick a regexp in as the delimiter. So far, it seems you cannot do this. Does anyone know how to put a regexp as the delimiter in substring_index? For example, I want to do something like this:
.order by substring_index(name, 'regexp [0-9]+', 1); Is this possible? -Emily
