Alphanumeric Order By in Mysql

Question

How can i make only numeric order by when the column containing alphanumeric characters in mysql ?

column (name) is unique field.

my table contains the recor

Answer 1

I had a slightly different issue, but the second example worked for me. I'd vote it up, but I just got started here.

I was dealing with a single varchar column which could contain any kind of information, but it needed to sort properly no matter what was in it:

So my column could contain info such as:

AB CD EF GH

or

01 02 03 04

The answer from Xavier caused it to be in alphabetical order when the information was all alphabetical, or numeric when the info was numeric.

Thanks

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