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    <p>If it was simply columns A-Z, then this is a simple answer</p> <pre><code>SELECT celldata, SUBSTR(cellposition,1,2) AS column, SUBSTR(cellposition,2) AS row, cellposition FROM mytable ORDER BY 3,2 </code></pre> <p>It gets a bit harder when you might have additional columns like 'AA', 'AZ', 'BA', etc... not just to extract the column/row; but also to handle the column ordering... I'm still working on a solution for that. Without actually writing it all out, I'd do a CASE test on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th characters of cellposition testing for a numeric value, and adjust the SUBSTR offset and length accordingly to split the row and column components, and then use LPAD() to pad the column with spaces to 3 characters length.</p> <p>If you can extend your MySQL, then <a href="https://github.com/mysqludf/lib_mysqludf_preg" rel="nofollow">LIB_MYSQLUDF_PREG</a> provides additional PREG_CAPTURE and PREG_POSITION functions in MySQL that would make this a lot easier; but you need to recompile MySQL from source to do this. The MySQL developers really should consider implementing this as standard.</p> <p>It's actually a lot easier in PHP as you can simply retrieve the records in any order, then usort() in PHP and handle the splitting there using something like:</p> <pre><code>list($c,$r) = sscanf($coord,'%[A-Z]%d'); $c = str_pad($c, 3, ' ', STR_PAD_LEFT); </code></pre> <p>to split row/col and adjust col to a comparable string by padding it; but that could be painfully memory-expensive if you're working with large volumes of data.</p> <p>I used an array keyed on the cell address, and with the value as the cell value, so:</p> <pre><code>function cellAddressCompare($a, $b) { sscanf($a,'%[A-Z]%d', $ac, $ar); sscanf($b,'%[A-Z]%d', $bc, $br); if ($ar == $br) { return strcasecmp(strlen($ac) . $ac, strlen($bc) . $bc); } return ($ar &lt; $br) ? -1 : 1; } uksort ($testArray, 'cellAddressCompare'); </code></pre>
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