Need to apply double quotes around every value of csv file

Question

I have a csv file that I need EVERY column wrapped in quotes. How do I change that using regex?

I am using my text editor to do the find/replace w/ regular expression (textmate)

example csv:

bear,brown,mean,large
ant,black,strong,tiny
cat,yellow,moody,small

Answer 1

You could start with:

find: ,
replace: "," 

then add a " at the start and at the end?

Answer 2

Here are the important portions of the regex. Hopefully I got it right when I converted to textmate format:

Search - ([^,]*)(,|$)

Replace - "$1"$2

Search explanation: Find every character that is not a comma, up until we reach a comma, or the end of the line. Capture the match for string to be quoted in one variable, and capture the comma/end-of-line match in another variable.

Replace explanation: The original string, quoted, and the comma or end-of-line that follows it.