The Perceptus Back Story » mangle http://blog.perceptus.ca Issues and adventures in the life of a Canadian micro-sized geek company Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:11:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Creating a single-quoted comma separated line of text http://blog.perceptus.ca/2009/03/27/a-quick-way-to-create-a-single-quoted-comma-separated-line/ http://blog.perceptus.ca/2009/03/27/a-quick-way-to-create-a-single-quoted-comma-separated-line/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:55:58 +0000 leonard http://blog.perceptus.ca/?p=99 Today I had a need to create a single line of text like this:

‘product1.jpg’, ‘product2.jpg’, ‘product3.jpg’

From a text blob that looks like this:

product1.jpg
product2.jpg
product3.jpg

This text chunk, in this case, comes from a copy-and-paste from a “dir *.jpg” in a Windows XP command window.

There were actually only 6 image file names that I wanted to put into an array in PHP, but I had a feeling that I would be doing this type of task again, so I spent the time to build a tool for it.

So if you need to do something similar, please try the latest addition to Perceptus’ Web Tools site, the List to single quoted CSV Text Wizard (admittedly, we don’t save our best names for that site).  All you need to do is paste in a bunch of words, one per line, and you’ll get back the one line CSV.

I think this will be handy for creating source code for arrays in many languages, and also creating the bulk of the syntax for an IN () SQL statement.

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