sorting SQLite keys where no leading zeros at end of name

[Mike Bonner]

You can do this.

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-- my field has sample data based on your example
   put field "myfieldWithData" into tData
   sort lines of tData ascending numeric by numberTag(each)
-- tData now contains your sorted keys, do with them as you wish.
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function numberTag pVar
-- returns the number portion of the line as the sort key
   return char (offset("_",pVar) + 1) to -1 of pVar into tTest
end numberTag

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have keys that get generated such as
>
>    someKey_1
>    someKey_2
>
> I just hit the snag that someKey_10 comes between the two of these.
>
> Is there a clean way to get SQLite (in memory) to ORDER these numerically
> without having to recode to force leading zeros?
>
> *yuk*
>
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