Add Quotes in url string from file

Question

I need script to add quotes in url string from url.txt

from http://www.site.com/info.xx to "http://www.site.com/info.xx"

Answer 1

url = '"%s"' % url

Example:

line = 'http://www.site.com/info.xx  \n'
url = '"%s"' % line.strip()
print url # "http://www.site.com/info.xx"

Remember, adding a backslash before a quotation mark will escape it and therefore won't end the string.

Answer 2

write one...
perl is my favourite scripting language... it appears you may prefer Python.

just read in the file and add \" before and after it..
this is pretty easy in perl.

this seems more like a request than a question... should this be on stackoverflow?

Answer 3

url = '"%s"' % url

Example:

>>> url = "http://www.site.com/info.xx"
>>> print url
http://www.site.com/info.xx
>>> url = '"%s"' % url
>>> print url
"http://www.site.com/info.xx"
>>>

Parsing it from a file:

from __future__ import with_statement

def parseUrlsTXT(filename):
    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
        for line in f.readlines():
            url = '"%s"' % line[:-1]
            print url

Usage:

parseUrlsTXT('/your/dir/path/URLs.txt')

Answer 4

If 'url.txt' contains a list of urls, one url per line then:

• quote the first non-whitespace character sequence:

  $ perl -pe"s~\S+~\"$&\"~" url.txt
  

• or trim whitespaces and quote the rest:

  $ perl -nE"$_=trim; say qq(\"$_\")" url.txt
  

Answer 5

A simple Perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

while (my $line = <>) {
    $line =~ s/\s*(.*)\s*/$1/;
    print qq/"$line"\n/;
}