Sort on this:
lpad(substr(ip,1,instr(ip,'.')-1),3,'0') ||
lpad(substr(ip,instr(ip,'.')+1,instr(ip,'.',1,2)-instr(ip,'.')-1),3,'0')||
lpad(substr(ip,instr(ip,'.',1,2)+1,instr(ip,'.',1,3)-instr(ip,'.',1,2)-1),3,
'0')||
lpad(substr(ip,instr(ip,'.',1,3)+1),3,'0')
Regards,
Waleed
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Need a trick to sort ip addresses into numerical order. I have them
stored as varchar2. If I select without a sort I get rows
in order of their character value:
10.0.112.1
10.0.113.1
10.0.113.2
10.0.12.1
10.0.78.1
I'd like to order them numerically within the octets:
10.0.12.1
10.0.78.1
10.0.112.1
10.0.113.1
10.0.113.2
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