How to sort alphabetically within a cell in Transform data

[Jason6]

Hi All,

I have a column with varying lenghts of text and my objective is to sort each of the cell values in this column aphabetically

For example:

if cell contains the word "alexchen" , i want a custom column which converts this to "aceehlnx".

if cell contains the word "acdb" , i want a custom column which converts this to "abcd".

Thank you all in advance for your help

[ryan_mayu]

@Jason6 

hopt this is helpful.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/replacer-replacetext

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/sql/sql-server-2008-r2/ee634233(v=sql.105)

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@Jason6 start blank query and in advanced editor paste following code and you will have the result.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSsxJrUjOSM1TitWJVqqqqqpMLE4EsxNTkoGMWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [c = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"c", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each List.Sort(Text.ToList([c]))),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Custom", {"Custom", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From)), type text})
in
    #"Extracted Values"

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