Hello!
The resulting sorting order is quite correct in terms of alphanumeric sorting. If you want numeric sorting, you would probably need to separate the leading number from the tailing string, so you had two fields e.g. "chapter_nr" of type float4 and "chapter_title" of type text (if that's what it is). Then you could just order by chapter_nr and would get a numerically correct sort instead of the alphanumerically correct sort. Alphanumeric always goes character per character from left to right and therefore n.11 is coming before n.2 - the tailing 1 after the first 1 doesn't matter, because n.11 is not regarded as n, point and eleven but n, point and two ones in sequence.
Regards,
Markus
Hi Gurus,
I need your help for this one:
let's say I have 1 field of type VARCHAR that contains numbers (as ascii) and characters like this:
title
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12.1 cisco ccnp routing
12.2 cisco ccnp remote access
12.11cisco ccnp switching
12.3 cisco ccnp support
I'd like to sort that column in alphanumeric order, like this:
title
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12.1 cisco ccnp routing
12.2 cisco ccnp remote access
12.3 cisco ccnp support
12.11cisco ccnp switching
but if I sort using group by title and order by title asc I have:
title
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12.1 cisco ccnp routing
12.11cisco ccnp switching
12.2 cisco ccnp remote access
12.3 cisco ccnp support
12.11cisco ccnp switching
where "12.11cisco ccnp switching" is before "12.2 cisco ccnp remote access" because it is smaller.
Is it possible ?
thanks for your help