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

If you do not want to reinvent the wheel or have a headache with lot of code that does not work, just use Drupal Natural Sort ... Just run the SQL that comes zipped (MySQL or Postgre), and that's it. When making a query, simply order using:

... ORDER BY natsort_canon(column_name, 'natural')