Quote a list of strings

quote_strings.sh

# Given a comma-separated list of strings,
# quote each string separately in double-quotes
# for exampe, for using the list of strings in Python.
#
# Use sed to replace word boundaries (\b) with a quote character (").
head -1 some_csv_file.csv | sed -e 's|\b|"|g'

# head -1 topic_to_policy_llm_CORRECTED.csv 
# topic_id,match,policy_field_flo,policy_field_llm,topic,source,policy_id_llm

# head -1 topic_to_policy_llm_CORRECTED.csv | sed -e 's|\b|"|g'
# "topic_id","match","policy_field_flo","policy_field_llm","topic","source","policy_id_llm"