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I took this regex from this question: What Vim command(s) can be used to quote/unquote words?

:%s/\([^,]\+\)/"\1"/g

It turns this:

foo,foo bar,bar@foo,foo# bar,bar$ foo#

into this:

"foo","foo bar","bar@foo","foo# bar","bar$ foo#"

I would like to modify the regex to work with this:

foo, foo bar ,bar@foo ,foo# bar, bar$ foo#

turning it into this:

"foo", "foo bar", "bar@foo", "foo# bar", "bar$ foo#"

Any suggestions?

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Something like this would work

:%s/\s*\([^,]\+\)/ "\1"/g | %s/^ //

Match all the leading whitespace before putting it into the capture group. Then put a space before the capture group in quotes. This will put and extra space in the first column so you need to remove that space we use the second substitute command.

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