definition. For Pasha's solution to work, you would need to
have the text_val column be null (or '') when the value is numeric.
Subject: Re: Sorting Varchar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:13:17 -0400
That didn't do it. I got 0,0,1050,1168,1195, 1975, 150,155,16500,170,178
OK, I'm sorry. The solution I gave doesn't work.
You need to have some sort of conditional in the sort expression so
that
numbers are sorted numerically and other things are sorted
alphanumerically.
I'm not aware of a test for numeric vaues in MySql, so you need to use
some
trick to
definition. For Pasha's solution to work, you would need to
have the text_val column be null (or '') when the value is numeric.
Subject: Re: Sorting Varchar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:13:17 -0400
That didn't do it. I got 0,0,1050,1168,1195, 1975,
150,155,16500,170,178
You could also use order by cost+0,cost. This puts the non-numerics
first, then the numerics in numerical order. (You'd need to get fancier
if there are non-numerics starting with a digit or numerics = 0.)
From: Sasha Pachev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I set
That didn't do it. I got 0,0,1050,1168,1195, 1975, 150,155,16500,170,178.
. . The non-numerics came out last (which I want). There are two zeros
but no negative numbers. Any alternatives?
Ken
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:47:11 -0400, Bill Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You could also
How do I set up a column (cost) that contains numbers and text so that the
numbers will sort the numbers accurately? Using varchar results in a sort
based on the first digit, so that I get e.g. 1, 10, 100, 3. . . when the
command is order by cost. Almost all of the text is By County.
Ken
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I set up a column (cost) that contains numbers and text so that
the numbers will sort the numbers accurately? Using varchar results in
a sort based on the first digit, so that I get e.g. 1, 10, 100, 3. . .
when the command is order by cost. Almost all of the
