Notepad++ RegEx Search/Replace: How to append and prepend a character at start and end of each file line?

Question

How to append and prepend a character at start and end of each file line?

I have this file structure:

140","Bosnia
160","Croatia
170","Serbia
180","Montenegro
200","Slovenia

What I need is to add a double quote " at the start and at the end of each file line, using regular expressions in Notepad++ editor.

Thanks!

Solution 1

Just search for

(.*)

and replace with

"\1"

with regular expression option activated. Regular expressions are working only on a row bases, so (.*) matches the complete row and because of the brackets around you can access the match using \1.

Solution 2

Try searching ^(.*)$ and replacing by "$1".

bye ;)

Comments

[stema]

It has to be a \1 in Notepad++, the $1 is inserted literally.