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Asked: 2026-05-15T10:10:40+00:00

I have a column that contains address line 2 type values. this column can

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I have a column that contains address “line 2” type values. this column can contain values like #431, UNIT 203, and APT. C and of course it can contain blank (or empty string) values also. i need an answer to two questions:

  1. How would you expect a mixed values like this to be sorted (i.e. blank or pound signs on top when ascending)?
  2. How would i pull this off with a custom parser?

currently with the default parser (i’m assuming the string parser), it is ordering the values pound signs, blanks, and then a-z values when in ascending order. i would think that it would blanks, pound signs, and then a-z values.

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  1. Editorial Team

    To answer #1, my expectation would be that those values would appear in this order: 

    "UNIT 203"
"#431"
"APT. C"

    You can probably do this by trimming all but the number away if a number exists in the string, and just removing some known prefixes and trimming if there isn’t a number. Whatever you do won’t be perfect, and that’s something you’ll just have to accept/explain.

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