• The only way you will ever get that to order correctly is to either split the numbers into separate columns, or pick a width for each of the numeric sections and zero-pad the stuff. After all - "1.2.3.4" > "1.2.3.34" is going to be true with or without the extra text after it.

    so you'd need to so to something like: "001.002.003.004" which would be LESS than "001.002.003.034"

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    Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?