Then try:
select somefields,fieldname + 0 as orderfield order by orderfield
John Almberg wrote:
>Nope. I've tried every combination I can think of of these ideas. They all
>give syntax errors. I don't think arithmatic is allowed in an ORDER BY
>clause. Doesn't even work on an INT field.
>
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> John Almberg wrote:
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> >Nope. I've tried every combination I can think of o
Yes, that works! Thanks very much to all who suggested similar solutions!
-- John
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Yes, that works! Thank you very much!
-- John
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> John Almberg wrote:
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A couple things off the top of my head:
- Have you looked into MySQL's 'SET' type?
- What about something like SELECT 0+fieldname as zerofield FROM table ORDER
BY zerofield;
- Would using grouping help?
- Have you considered creating a custom character set? (This may be too
extreme. Can be d
John Almberg wrote:
>Nope. I've tried every combination I can think of of these ideas. They all
>give syntax errors. I don't think arithmatic is allowed in an ORDER BY
>clause. Doesn't even work on an INT field.
>
>-- John
>
>
Have you tried a computed column, i.e,
SELECT BLAH, 0 + BLAH as ord
Here is a small example I have just run :
mysql> create table test (f char(20));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.90 sec)
mysql> insert into test values ('11xbc');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> insert into test values ('2bcv');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> insert into te
