Not sure if a normal user can close a thread. But I'm also not sure if you understand the difference yet either.

In an alphbetical sort 86 would come before 115
Or in a decimal format

.115
.860

The .860 is larger, but that is not really what is going on here, just trying to use that maybe as an example for you to visualize.

Still almost looks like what you really want is either a sorting routine, or a mathmatical comparison, in which case you can convert each value to a real number and then do math operations on it. But if LEN handles what you're wanting to do then thats great too.