Re: Sorting street addresses

Richard Poole wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:36:00PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>
>>I would like all those on the same street grouped together. Is there any
>>tricks to getting the street names sorted first, possibly where numbers
>>and strings separate?
>
>
> You could do something like
>
> CREATE FUNCTION streetname(text) RETURNS text AS '
>     SELECT substring($1 FROM ''[a-zA-Z ]+$'')
> ' LANGUAGE 'SQL';
>
> and then add an ORDER BY streetname(address) to your select.

You could also add a function index that would help speed things along.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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> Richard
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