Order List Using Caml Query in a text field as a number on SP 2010

Question

How can I order a Column where the type is text, but all the values stored are numeric,

I want to order it descending but considering the Column a Numeric field without changing the column type

Thank you

Answer 1

So This was my solution :

I created a Calculated column based on the original column with output type as numeric

There was a problem though. the calculated column at the beginning was returning the result as text too.

To fix this issue I had to do the following :

1.- ad a +"0" to the formula

I don't know how or why this worked, but doing this it transformed all the items into numeric.

Answer 2

There is no way to do this using CAML.

You'd need to fetch the results then sort using JavaScript.