[AccessD] Sorting Alpha-Numerics

Oleg_123 at xuppa.com Oleg_123 at xuppa.com
Tue Oct 21 09:23:40 CDT 2003


Mike, I just did regular 'sort ascending' got this (I typed it not in any
order); is that what u r looking for ?

r
000
001
123
134
444
445
455
456
67U
AER
AQO
ASD
FGT
IUY
VBG
ZZZ

> Greetings,
>
> I have a text field containing all possible 3 digit alpha-numeric
> combinations from 000 to ZZZ.  I am looking for a method to sort this
> text field where 000 through 999 are listed in numerical order before
> the remaining alpha-numeric combinations are listed in ASCII sort order.
>  Any suggestions?  I have tried to do this in Excel, however, Excel
> makes some startling decisions on its own...such as turning 7E9 into
> 7000000000.
>
> Example:
> 000
> 001
> .
> .
> 998
> 999
> 00A
> 00B
> .
> .
> ZZZ
>
>
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