On Apr 22, 2006, at 4:49 AM, William Stokes wrote:

Hello,

Any idea how to sort this?

I have a column in DB that contains this kind of data,
A20,B16,B17C14,C15,D13,D12 etc.

I would like to print this data to a page and sort it ascending by the
letter an descending by the number. Can this be done? Like

A20
B17
B16
C15
C14
D13
D12

Thanks
-Will

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think that I've seen anyone mention this. Can you not just sort the data before it reaches your php code... meaning, via the db? My example uses MySQL:

<?
$result = msyql_query("SELECT * FROM your_database ORDER BY ASC", $link);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
  $column[$i++] = $row["your_column"];

...

for ($i=0; $i<$numOfCols; $i++)
  echo "$column[$i]<br/>";
?>

Again, I may have misread what you are asking, but this appears to be a simple solution when pulling from a database.

Good luck,
~Philip

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