>>Hi,
>>
>>I need to index a cursor on two columns, one is type NUMERIC(2,0) (COLUMN1) (the value is always a hole number, 1,2,5,3, 12); the other column (COLUMN2) is c(15) but I need to show the values in the order converted to a number. For example, the second column values could be:
>>'3330023'
>>'23'
>>'5667'
>>'9900'
>>And I need to have them shown in their "numberic" order as
>>'23'
>>'5667'
>>'9900'
>>'3330023'
>>The index has to be an expression that has +. For example,
>>COLUMN1 + INT(VAL(COLUMN2))
>>
>>But obviously the above will not give me what I am looking for.
>>
>>TIA for any input
>
>Try
>
>INDEX ON padl(column1, 2, '0') + padl(alltrim(column2),15,'0')
Works very well. Thank you!
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