> Is it possible to have the ORDER BY option ignore the articles "the ", "a
",
> and "an " at the beginning of a VARCHAR, CHAR, TEXT, et cetera field? In
> other words, I want my results to come back alphabetized, while ignoring
the
> aforementioned articles.
I suppose you could write a function (say strip_articles) to strip those
words out (and anything else you'd like), then do an ORDER BY
strip_articles(MyField).
Greg
