Order by last 3 chars

Question

I have a table like:

id  name
--------
1   clark_009
2   clark_012
3   johny_002
4   johny_010

I need to get results in this order:

Answer 1

You may apply substring_index function to parse these values -

select * from table order by substring_index(name, '_', -1)

Answer 2

you should try this.

SELECT * FROM Table order by SUBSTRING(name, -3);

good luck!

Answer 3

You can use MySQL SUBSTRING() function to sort by substring

Syntax : SUBSTRING(string,position,length)

Example : Sort by last 3 characters of a String

SELECT * FROM TableName ORDER BY SUBSTRING(FieldName, -3);
#OR
SELECT * FROM TableName ORDER BY SUBSTRING(FieldName, -3,3);

Example : Sort by first 3 characters of a String

SELECT * FROM TableName ORDER BY SUBSTRING(FieldName, 1,3);

Note : Positive Position/Index start from Left to Right and Negative Position/Index start from Right to Left of the String.

Here is the details about SUBSTRING() function.

Answer 4

This will do it, very simply selecting the right-most 3 characters and ordering by that value ascending.

SELECT *
FROM table_name
ORDER BY RIGHT(name, 3) ASC;

It should be added that as your data grows, this will become an inefficient solution. Eventually, you'll probably want to store the numeric appendix in a separate, indexed integer column, so that sorting will be optimally efficient.