RE: Order By Character Column

This seems to work (using the varchar :) definition of Mark's table) -
although I am assuming that values like '......' and '1.1.1' aren't allowed

Cheers,

Ian


select * from sort_test;

A
----------
B
A
20
11
7
7.3
70

select a
from sort_test
order by
decode(rtrim(translate(a,'0123456789.','00000000000'),'0'),null,to_number(a)),a;

A
----------
7
7.3
11
20
70
A
B




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