Re: Sorting with an alpha numeric field.

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 23), Jacque Scott said:
> I need to create a query that will sort by a alpha numeric field.  I
> need the ID field returned and one problem that I will face is that when
> it sorts in alpha numeric the ID field will be out of sequence.  I will
> use this ID field in another part of the program so I need to make sure
> I get all of the ID.

If you mean that you have a number in a CHAR or other text field, just
do math on it to force mysql to convert it to a numeric type:

ORDER BY myfield+0

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	Dan Nelson
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