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Subject: SQL to sort numbers stored as strings?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:21:59 -0700
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I have a PF with a fixed-length character string field that contains either digits (padded with spaces), or just spaces.

I want to SELECT DISTINCT on that column, and then order the result set by the *numeric* value of the field.

And I'm having trouble figuring out how to do that.

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JHHL

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RE: SQL to sort numbers stored as strings? , Rob Berendt
Re: SQL to sort numbers stored as strings? , Vern Hamberg

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