MySQL Select WHERE IN given order

Question

I have something like

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id IN (118,17,113,23,72);

If I just do this it returns the rows in ID ascending order. Is t

Answer 1

I think if you did a UNION query with each select, it might return it in the order.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=118
UNION
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=17
...

Ugly, but I think it will work.