Re: Sorting "character" numbers

Brad, I ran into this once. Consider this solution:  "For plant controls 
we would like each plant to have it's own series of numbers.  We are 
assigning invoice number blocks for each (region,plant,division) as 
follows: Your facility will use 10-digit numbers beginning with 1250 
through 1259.  Your block of numbers is 1250,000,000 through 
1259,999,999."

Then you see there is no leading zero problem.  <vbg>

hey, it'd work wouldn't it?
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"Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
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06/06/2000 02:51 PM
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        Subject:        Sorting "character" numbers

I'm sure someone has run across this before.

We have a DB that contains a character field which holds an invoice 
number.
Because it can be used for many of our companies, we had to make it
character because some of our companies use character invoice numbers.

Anyhow, the plants that use numeric numbers get the number stripped of
leading zeros (this is done automatically by the replication tool we use).
So, it makes the number sort all funky.  (ie 900 is greater than 1101.)

Is there any way, without having to leave on leading zeros, to get them to
sort correctly?  Probably not, but with the minds on the list I wouldn't 
be
surprised.  ;)

Brad
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