G'Day folks,
New to PHP/MySQL. Want to order the results of a SELECT by their 'absolute' value, not their sign. So regardless of whether it's +37 or -37, they are both 37 and thus both come between 38 & 36, regardless of whether they're + or -. eg. 100 -99 -92 91 72 -38 37 -37 etc... I have the order DESC but it puts 100 first, and -100 last, (that's what you'd usually want, but I need the extremes grouped at one end, down to the middle point zero......). In my fantasy world I could do a ORDER BY ABS(number) DESC If there was any other way to achieve the same result that would be just dandy... I bet this is obvious. Thanks for your time, David Mackay --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
