Quote Grouped Elements

quote-grouped-elements

Quick Start

• Command: quote-grouped-elements
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/quote-grouped-elements
• I/O shape: reads stdin and rewrites each nonblank line as "a","b","c"

When To Use This Tool

• Turn grouped space-separated values into a quoted comma-joined representation.
• Clean up shell / EDirect output just before embedding it into CSV-like text.
• Remove blank lines while preserving one transformed output row per populated input line.
• Keep formatting in a one-line stream editor instead of hand-rolling sed repeatedly.

Common Patterns

# 1) Quote a simple grouped line
printf 'alpha beta gamma\n' | quote-grouped-elements

# 2) Blank lines are removed
printf 'alpha beta\n\none two\n' | quote-grouped-elements

# 3) Use after another tool emits space-separated groups
xtract -pattern Item -element GroupedValues |
quote-grouped-elements

Recommended Workflow

1. Make sure each input line already contains the grouped values you want to keep together.
2. Pipe the text through quote-grouped-elements as a final formatting step.
3. Verify that spaces really are your intended delimiters before using the output in CSV-like contexts.
4. Hand off the quoted lines to the next shell or reporting stage.

Guardrails

• There is no option parsing or help output; the wrapper only reads stdin and rewrites text.
• Blank lines are dropped entirely.
• Every literal space becomes a field separator, so elements containing internal spaces are split apart.
• Existing quotes are not escaped, and tabs are not treated as delimiters.
• The result looks CSV-like but is only a simple quoted comma-joined text transform, not a full CSV serializer.