Column Ordering Issue

Trying to find a solution to a problem I'm having in SharePoint 2010 Foundation, we have a list library used for storing drawings and when displaying the content of the library I want the results to be ordered by the Drawing Number column which sounds easy
enough, but the drawing numbers mostly use the format 000/00/0/000 and so because of the / the column type is a "single line of text" which doesn't order the same way as a Number type column would, ie it will put 000/00/00/100 above 000/00/00/11.
So I can think of two solutions to this;
1, Make SharePoint order Text columns the same as a Number column or
2, Use a calculated column and remove the / and return as a Number column
The only thing is I have no idea how to do either of these!!
Can anyone please help?
Thanks

Hi Dermot,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to order documents by the Drawing Number column(string) like number column.
For your issue, you can try to use workflow to do it. You can try to use workflow Utility actions to extract these chars before or after the / to four workflow variables(000 00 00 100), then convert these four variables into number, and calculate
these. Finnally, store the calculated result to a number column and order documents by the number column.
More information, please refer to the links:
https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Workflow-actions-in-SharePoint-Designer-2010-A-quick-reference-guide-5a7ad276-0ed7-49b0-b652-e56a77dd96c6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
http://www.documentmanagementworkflowinfo.com/sample-sharepoint-workflows/convert-string-workflow-variable-to-number-sharepoint-designer-2010.htm
Best Regards,
Wendy
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