sorting SQLite keys where no leading zeros at end of name

[Peter Haworth]

If the text and numeric portions of the key are indeed separated by an
underscore, the following should work as an ORDER clause (untested).

ORDER BY substr(TheKeyColumn,1,instr(TheKeyColumn,'_')-1)
ASC,CAST(substr(TheKeyColumn,instr(theKeyColumn,'_')+1) AS INTEGER) ASC

If there are a fixed number of chars before the numeric part of the key,
then you can replace the instr calls with the appropriate number of chars.

Pete
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:36 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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