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Add quotation to start and end of each line in Xcode

I have multiple lists (in a .txt file) which I’d like to quickly convert to an array. I’ve seen this question asked and answered here for Notepad++, but not for Xcode. Is it possible to similarly here?

AliceBlue
AntiqueWhite
Aqua
Aquamarine
Azure
Beige
Bisque
Black
BlanchedAlmond

and convert it to an array literal…

var myArray = ["AliceBlue", "AntiqueWhite", ... ]

//the highest rated answer for this on the notepad++ thread: Add quotation at the start and end of each line in Notepad++
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I should add I can use the expression (.+) in the find function, but not the "1".

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    Looks like it's not possible to use Regular Expressions to replace in Xcode. I ended up using Atom text editor to get this done, and the following expressions:

    Find:

    (n+)

    Replace:

    ",rn"

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    To add quotation marks to the start and end of every line with regular expressions in Xcode, choose the “Regular expression” search option and replace ^.*$ (i.e., ^ is the start of the line, .* is zero or more of any character, and $ is the end of the line) with "$0" (i.e., a quotation mark, followed by capture group number zero, followed by a final quotation mark):

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    You can also use multi-cursors. You can, for example, hold down the ⌥ key and click-drag with your mouse, and then hit ⌘–◀︎ to go to the start of the lines, " for the opening quotation mark, ⌘–▶︎ to go to the end of the lines, and " for the closing quotation mark.

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    And while you can hold ⌥ and and click-drag to make a bunch of multi-cursors, you can also toggle individual ones on and off with ⇧–⌃-clicks.

    If you want to remove the newline characters, too, with the regex approach, after doing the regex replacement, just go back to a normal “Contains” search and replace the “line break”, ⏎, with a comma and space:

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    Or, with the multi-cursor approach, after adding the quotation marks, go to the end of the line, add the comma and space, and hit the ⌦ key to delete the line breaks:

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    You just need to delete the trailing comma at the very end.

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