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Hi Community,

I want to add double quotation to each item when writing CSV.
I'm going to export the Query Result to CSV.
Is it possible with the Power Automate desktop?

ex)
aaa,bbb,ccc --> "aaa","bbb","ccc"

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Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Paste this into your workflow and have a look:

SET Text TO $'''aaa,bbb,ccc''' Text.SplitText.SplitWithDelimiter Text: Text CustomDelimiter: $''',''' IsRegEx: False Result=> TextList LOOP i FROM 0 TO TextList.Count - 1 STEP 1 SET TextList[i] TO $'''\"%TextList[i]%\"''' END

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NAGARJ 12 on at

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Thank you for your answer.

My csv data has 4500 rows and 6 columns.
The loop method is time consuming.

I thought about using regular expressions as another method.
SET Path TO $'''D:\\DataFolder\\DataFile_20220214.csv'''
File.ReadTextFromFile.ReadText File: Path Encoding: File.TextFileEncoding.ANSI Content=> FileContents
Text.Replace Text: FileContents TextToFind: $'''(.*?)(,|\\r?\\n|\\r)''' IsRegEx: True IgnoreCase: False ReplaceWith: $'''\"$1\"$2''' ActivateEscapeSequences: False Result=> Replaced
File.WriteText File: $'''D:\\DataFolder\\DataFile_20220214.csv''' TextToWrite: FileContents AppendNewLine: True IfFileExists: File.IfFileExists.Overwrite Encoding: File.FileEncoding.ANSI

The variable "Replaced" had double quotes.
However, the actual csv file did not have double quotation.

please help me.

(I'm using the Japanese version.)

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NAGARJ 12 on at

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This issue has been resolved in the following ways!
SET Path TO $'''D:\\DataFolder\\DataFile_20220214.csv'''
File.ReadTextFromFile.ReadText File: Path Encoding: File.TextFileEncoding.ANSI Content=> FileContents
Text.AppendLine Text: FileContents LineToAppend: $'''''' Result=> Result
Text.Replace Text: Result TextToFind: $'''(.*?)(,|\\r?\\n|\\r)''' IsRegEx: True IgnoreCase: False ReplaceWith: $'''\"$1\"$2''' ActivateEscapeSequences: False Result=> Replaced
File.WriteText File: $'''D:\\DataFolder\\DataFile_20220214.csv''' TextToWrite: Replaced AppendNewLine: False IfFileExists: File.IfFileExists.Overwrite Encoding: File.FileEncoding.ANSI

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