I have something like A001C, B689, B1001 etc...
>>> Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/23/2004 10:07:43 AM >>> In the last episode (Mar 23), Jacque Scott said: > I need to create a query that will sort by a alpha numeric field. I > need the ID field returned and one problem that I will face is that when > it sorts in alpha numeric the ID field will be out of sequence. I will > use this ID field in another part of the program so I need to make sure > I get all of the ID. If you mean that you have a number in a CHAR or other text field, just do math on it to force mysql to convert it to a numeric type: ORDER BY myfield+0 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
