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Add Quotation Marks to Data in a file

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• Subject: [mg69726] Add Quotation Marks to Data in a file
• From: JOHN ERB <john_c_erb at prodigy.net>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:31:45 -0400 (EDT)

I have a comma-separated file (CSV) that looks like
 
Circle, 6 x 6, 5, 0.23
Circle, 7 x 7, 5, 0.29
...
 
How do I add quotation marks around the second element
so that when I export the data to an CSV file, I get
 
Circle, "6 x 6", 5, 0.23
Circle, "7 x 7", 5, 0.29
...
 
Thank you
John C. Erb

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