There's another option that works if you're looking to do some simple sorting. | makeresults
| eval name="Alice,Bob,Frank,Steve"
| makemv delim="," name
| mvexpand name
| eval fakenumber=len(name)
| eval sorted_name=if(name=="Frank"," Frank",name)
| eval sorted_name=if(sorted_name=="Steve"," Steve",sorted_name)
| stats max(fakenumber) as namelen by sorted_name It'll put the trellis in the order of Steve, Frank, Alice, Bob. There's two spaces before "Steve" and one before "Frank"
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