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Switching to a stable sort algorithm would allow for multi-column sorting

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First: I *love* tablr. I've been using it a lot recently and am very pleased with it.

I want to sort by multiple columns. For example, if my CSV records have a COMPANY and a EMPLOYEE field I'd like to sort by COMPANY and within each group of records for a company have the PERSON field sorted as well. If *tablr* used a stable sorting algorithm I could do this by sorting on PERSON first, applying the sort, and then sorting on COMPANY and applying that sort. Unfortunately this doesn't work. I'm assuming *tablr* is not using a stable sort algorithm? (Don't have time to look through the code right now.)

Could *tablr* switch to using a stable sort algorithm? It would be a "nice to have" enhancement.

Or am I missing a trick that would let me do multi-column sorts as it is?

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