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    This document discusses sorting string values that contain both numbers and letters. It provides an SQL query that uses regular expression functions to first standardize the numeric portion of the strings and then sort them numerically while preserving the original string ordering. The query selects values from a test table and orders them using a regular expression replacement to normalize numbers to a fixed width before sorting.

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    This document discusses sorting string values that contain both numbers and letters. It provides an SQL query that uses regular expression functions to first standardize the numeric portion of the strings and then sort them numerically while preserving the original string ordering. The query selects values from a test table and orders them using a regular expression replacement to normalize numbers to a fixed width before sorting.

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    This document discusses sorting string values that contain both numbers and letters. It provides an SQL query that uses regular expression functions to first standardize the numeric portion of the strings and then sort them numerically while preserving the original string ordering. The query selects values from a test table and orders them using a regular expression replacement to normalize numbers to a fixed width before sorting.

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    Sorting -- sort a string like a number

    I need to sort values to. 3 4 5 6 50A 50 78 124 How to achieve this?

    This small variation on one of the methods in the other thread mentioned might be what you want: WITH test AS ( SELECT '3' ver FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '4' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '5' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '6' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '50A' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '50' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '78' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '124' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '50A9ZZZZ' FROM DUAL UNION SELECT '50A10AAA' FROM DUAL ) SELECT * FROM test ORDER BY RegExp_Replace (RegExp_Replace (ver, '(\d+)', '0000000\1.'), '0+(........)\.', '\1'); VER -------3 4 5 6 50 50A 50A9ZZZZ 50A10AAA 78 124 10 rows selected.

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