On 8 Apr 2002, at 13:52, Bernd Menzel wrote: > I want to order a result with ignore the first word when it begins with a _. > Begin the first word with a _ use the next word. > > Can I do it with SQL? > > Table example: > _The Rock > Scary Movie > X-Files > > With order I want the output > Scary Movie > _The Rock > X-Files
I thought you wanted to ignore the "The". Since you're going to have to process the titles before display anyway, to remove the _, why not move the "The" to the end for storage, separating it with some character that never occurs in a title: "Rock|The"? Then the sort should work correctly. A more flexible solution would be to introduce a new column to sort by, which would contain the title with initial "The"/"A"/"An" stripped off and maybe all spaces/punctuation removed as well -- or do you want "X-Files" to be before "Xanadu"? -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tobacco Documents Online http://tobaccodocuments.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
