Posted by John Nichel on 01/19/06 20:28
Jeffrey Pearson wrote:
> OK. I know I did this a LONG time ago but I don't remember how I did
> it. Thus, my post.
>
> I have a list of last names from a MySQL database. I need to display
> them grouped by the first letter of their last names and insert a
> separator on display. Similar to a phone book. So it looks like;
>
>
> A
> ___
> Adams
> Apple
> Army
>
> B
> __
> Banjo
> Bank
> Bark
>
> C
> __
> Captain
> Car
>
>
>
> Is there a way without jumping through too many hoops?
>
> Thanks for any input you can give.
>
Order them with your query
select * from db.table order by table.lastname ASC
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