>>I have a table that contains a character field with letters and digits that after a query on this table I want to set the order by the numbers contained on this character field...
>>
>>something like this:
>>as-ds-1-xx
>>as-ds-2-xx
>>as-ds-3-xx
>>as-ds-10-x
>>
>>not like this:
>>as-ds-1-xx
>>as-ds-10-x
>>as-ds-2-xx
>>...
>>
>>that is what ...
>> thanks!!
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>Select val(substr(mycharfield,7,2)) as dummy,* from mytable order by 1
Thanks once again Edward!!!
Just a little problem, what about if the digit is not all the time at the same possition and also will be different length.. like 10, or 100 or 2034
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