The values in a column could as follows:
ColA
a
a;b;c
b;a;c
b;c;a
How to reorder the colA like below:
ColA
a
a;b;c
a;b;c
a;b;c
If they're all in one variable you need to first separate them and then use CALL SORTC().
You can separate them using SCAN() and recombine using CATX().
Ie
CALL SORTC(var1, var2, var3).
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