Validate and sort a variety of serial numbers with different formats?
<p>I am faced with the following issue.  I need to capture a range of serial numbers in c# to be stored in a database.  If these serial numbers are just numbers, it is fine, but I have ran into serial numbers which are alpha-numeric such as:</p>

<p>56AAA71064D6 and 56AAA7105A25</p>

<p>How can I accommodate the different possibilities that serial number ranges may be in?</p>

<p>Assuming that all serial numbers have some order, how can I parse the sequential part of it?</p>

<p>The database takes the serial numbers as strings already.</p>
