Natural Sort in MySQL

Question

Is there an elegant way to have performant, natural sorting in a MySQL database?

For example if I have this data set:

• Final Fantasy
• Final Fant

Answer 1

To order:
0
1
2
10
23
101
205
1000
a
aac
b
casdsadsa
css

Use this query:

SELECT 
    column_name 
FROM 
    table_name 
ORDER BY
    column_name REGEXP '^\d*[^\da-z&\.\' \-\"\!\@\#\$\%\^\*\(\)\;\:\\,\?\/\~\`\|\_\-]' DESC, 
    column_name + 0, 
    column_name;