Question

Do MySQL have any function by which I can split data of a column while reading it ?

I have data such as A-A10 , A-A20 , A-A110 stored in a column .

Now I want to sort the result by this column.

How do I use ORDER BY to do this sorting?

Is there any function in MySQL by which first I can split the column data or remove A-A from the data and then sort by the left data i.e. numbers (10,20,110).

Answer 1

Are there only ever three characters before the number? If so, you can use this:

... ORDER BY CAST(SUBSTRING(column, 4) AS SIGNED)

Edited in response to sqlchild‘s comment below.