SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY string_length(column);
Is there a MySQL function to do this (of course instead of string_length)?
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY string_length(column); Is there a MySQL function to do
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SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY string_length(column);
Is there a MySQL function to do this (of course instead of string_length)?
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CHAR_LENGTH()to get the number of characters in a string.For multi-byte charsets
LENGTH()will give you the number of bytes the string occupies, whileCHAR_LENGTH()will return the number of characters.