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neo33
neo33

Reputation: 1879

How to create a regular expression to obtain a list of strings?

hello I am working with a file that looks as follows: 

AliceBlue
AntiqueWhite
Aqua
Aquamarine
Azure
Beige
Bisque
Black
BlanchedAlmond
Blue
BlueViolet
Brown

I would like to obtain from this one another list with the following structure:

"AliceBlue","AntiqueWhite","Aqua",...,

I order to achieve this I tried:

awk -vORS=, '{ print $1 }' listColors.txt | sed 's/,$/\n/'

And I got:

AliceBlue,AntiqueWhite,...,

I almost achieve what I wanted but I think that I need to build a regular expression to add the double quotes to all the words, I am not an expert on regular expressions, I would like to appreciate any suggestion to complete the task.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 65

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785306

Using awk you can do:

awk -v ORS=, '{$1= "\"" $1 "\""} 1' file; echo

"AliceBlue","AntiqueWhite","Aqua","Aquamarine","Azure","Beige","Bisque","Black","BlanchedAlmond","Blue","BlueViolet","Brown",

Upvotes: 3

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