{"id":14202,"date":"2024-03-15T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-sort-oracle-strings-by-numbers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:20:37","slug":"how-to-sort-oracle-strings-by-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-sort-oracle-strings-by-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sort Oracle Strings Numerically: ORDER BY Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To achieve sorting of Oracle strings numerically, you can use the ORDER BY clause in Oracle and combine it with the REGEXP_SUBSTR function to extract numbers from the string for sorting.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">SELECT<\/span> column_name\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">FROM<\/span> table_name\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ORDER<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">BY<\/span> TO_NUMBER(REGEXP_SUBSTR(column_name, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'\\d+'<\/span>));\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, &#8216;column_name&#8217; is the name of the string column to be sorted, and &#8216;table_name&#8217; is the name of the table containing this column. 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