On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:41:06 -0500, Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:48:26 +0100, > Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've got a table holding loco numbers and an id which references the locos > > table. How can I sort this table, so that numeric values appear first in > > numerical order followed by alpha in alpha order.? > > You can first sort by whether or not a pattern match succeeds. You haven't > said whether or not the empty string is a number or an alpha and that will > affect the choice of pattern. > > For example: > select * from lumbers order by lumber !~ '^[0-9]+$', lumber;
I missed the need for numeric ordering for the numbers. The CASE solution someone else suggested seems to answer your question though. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
