ORDER BY - Right to Left

Hello there,
I am in a situation where i need string values (In the format 000000AA0000) to be sorted from right to left rather than left to right.
So - Normally:
100000AA0000
000000AA0001
I would like it to be:
100000AA0001
600000AA0000
This needs to basically look at the data and sort in reverse order.
Regards,
Matt

Hi, Matt,
is there a mistake in your message? It seems like you want different strings, not just different order.
There is an undocumented REVERSE function that does exactly what you asked:
SELECT string_col
FROM table_x
ORDER BY REVERSE (string_col);It's not a good idea to use undocumented features in Production applications.
As PL/SQL goes, writing your own REVERSE function is pretty easy.

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