Question

Im attempting to take a string that is in a partial comma separated setup. I need to add a quotation mark or some other mark to the beginning and end of each line in the string. The string in question has many lines like shown below.

IE

2011.11.12 20:06,Teac Ous,Solid Pyroxeres,46521,Pyroxeres

is to be turned into

"2011.11.12 20:06,Teac Ous,Solid Pyroxeres,46521,Pyroxeres"

I have tried many regex attempts but I have to admit that I am very poor in understanding regex.

Answer 1

You can abuse the fact the . does not match a newline.

$result = preg_replace('/(.+)/', '"$1"', $subject);