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could consider $Translate(Var,",","^") but I've not used it in the context in your example though
You can potentially use a $ListToString(.. or LIST(... or some other similar option in Sql to extract the values as part of the query and avoid the special characters.
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I've not tried in this specific combination but potentially wrapping the field in %External(Field) might give you the correct result.