Andre du Plessis wrote:
Sorry if this is actually a noob question, how do I do an ansi style
order by in sqlite
For example
A
b
a
B
Would be sorted as
A
B
a
b
but what you want is
a
A
b
B
I can do order by upper(column)
But then things like
__new__
Goes to the bottom and should go to the top
Thanks.
You should use lower(column) instead. This will convert uppercase to
lowercase and sort *most* punctuation characters before the alphabetic
characters. Note that '{', '|', '}', and '~' will still sort after all
the alphabetic characters.
If you want the lower case columns to come before the uppercase values
(as you show in your example) you will also have to sort by the original
column values in descending order (so 'a' 0x61 comes before 'A' 0x41).
order by lower(a_column), a_column desc
Or you could write and register your own collation function which does
exactly what you want. :-)
HTH
Dennis Cote
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