[AccessD] Sorting Alpha-Numerics

Mitsules, Mark Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com
Tue Oct 21 08:58:38 CDT 2003


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


Mark Mitsules
Senior Designer
Department E13
Submarine Electrical Engineering
Northrop Grumman Newport News
757.380.3376


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