Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Gatt wrote: >> I have a table of music artist names which i'd like to output in >> order. Normally i just use: >> >> select * from artists order by artist_name; >> >> What i'd really like to do is order the artists by name but ignore >> any "the" or "the," preceding it. >> > > You could try something like this: > > select * from t > order by > case > when lower(substr(artist, 1, 3)) = 'the' then substr(artist, > 4) when lower(substr(artist, 1, 4)) = 'the,' then > substr(artist, 5) else artist > end;
Only change the order of the tests - test for 'the,' (with comma) first, otherwise you'll never get to it. Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
