>VFP backend:
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>Why will the PADL() in this order by not work?
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>SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY street, st_type, st_prefix, st_suffix, city, PADL(ALLTRIM(number),8,'0')
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>It bombs on the PADL() portion. The backend is VFP not SQL or Oracle.
Humm, I did something similar (in VFP 6) more or less like this:
select expr1, expr2, ... order by 1, 2
Where expr1 and expr2 can be replaced by any UDF.
With the asterisk, you might simply add additional fields:
select expr1, expr2, * ... order by 1, 2
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