order by… numbers? Help me sort ip addresses

Question

MySQL, Trying to get a list of ip addresses, in order.

this query

select ip from sn_192_168_0 

gives this

192.168.         


        

Answer 1

you can use

SELECT ip FROM sn_192_168_0 ORDER BY LPAD(  ip, 16, 0 ) 

the number 16 is the max length of the ip