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Reputation: 5450

ORACLE SQL | Modifying data in ORDER BY

following structure in a ORACLE table:

FILE_NAME
-----------
12345_l.tif
12345_m.tif
12345_r.tif
12345_x.tif
12345_y.tif

Need the following result:

First *_m*
Then *_l*
Then *_r*
Then * (everything else)

Trying with:

SELECT FILE_NAME FROM TABLE
WHERE FILE_NAME LIKE '12345%'
ORDER BY regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_m', '_1'),
         regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_l', '_2'),
         regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_r', '_3')

But this gives me a wrong result.

Anybody with a hint?

TIA Matt

Upvotes: 0

Views: 157

Answers (1)

Ollie
Ollie

Reputation: 17538

Change your ORDER BY to order it by a numeric:

 ORDER BY regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_m', 1),
          regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_l', 2),
          regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_r', 3);

e.g.

WITH t
  AS (SELECT '12345_l.tif' AS file_name FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_m.tif' FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_r.tif' FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_x.tif' FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_y.tif' FROM dual)
SELECT file_name
  FROM t
 ORDER BY regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_m', 1),
          regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_l', 2),
          regexp_replace(FILE_NAME, '_r', 3);

Gives:

==============
12345_m.tif
12345_l.tif
12345_r.tif
12345_x.tif
12345_y.tif

Hope it helps...

Alternatively you could use:

 ORDER BY (CASE SUBSTR(file_name, INSTR(file_name, '_')+1, 1)
             WHEN 'm' THEN 1
             WHEN 'l' THEN 2
             WHEN 'r' THEN 3
             ELSE 4
            END) ASC;

E.G.:

WITH t
  AS (SELECT '12345_l.tif' AS file_name FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_y.tif' FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_r.tif' FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_x.tif' FROM dual
      UNION
      SELECT '12345_m.tif' FROM dual)
SELECT file_name
  FROM t
 ORDER BY (CASE SUBSTR(file_name, INSTR(file_name, '_')+1, 1)
             WHEN 'm' THEN 1
             WHEN 'l' THEN 2
             WHEN 'r' THEN 3
             ELSE 4
            END) ASC;

Gives:

12345_m.tif
12345_l.tif
12345_r.tif
12345_x.tif
12345_y.tif

Upvotes: 2

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