Sorting a varchar2 field in Report 10g

Dear all,
i have a table of salaries, which have a field RANK_NO VARACHAR2.
I create a report and order it by RANK_NO. but it is not ordering what i want to be. it is ordered like
1
10
11
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
then i use the order by cluase like this,
ORDER BY TO_NUMBER(REGEXP_SUBSTR(RANK_NO,'[0-9]+')),
REGEXP_SUBSTR(UPPER(RANK_NO),'[A-Z]+').
but the result is same .
how to sort a varchar2 field in reports?
Thanks & Regards

Hi Muhammad,
Use the following Order By clause hope it helps you,
ORDER BY TO_NUMBER (REPLACE (RANK_NO, LTRIM (RANK_NO, '0123456789'))), RANK_NO
Best Regards
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