sorting SQLite keys where no leading zeros at end of name

[Mike Bonner]

oh duh. Ignore me.  My answer sorts them after the fact with lc.  Peters
answer does the same basic thing inside sqlite.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> 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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