>Hi Craig
>
>No ::(
>
>1.1
>1.10
>1.2
>1.2.R
>10.1

I don't see any other way but to split this into fields. Each field is a string, containing a character representation of a chunk which was originally between the dots...

select getwordnum(fld, 1, "."), getwordnum(fld,2, ".") ... order by 1,2,3,4

Now if you want 1.12 to sort after 1.2, you may need to left-pad the numbers to their maximal length.