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Quickly add patterns before and after each word in text
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Tool usage guide
The Add Symbols Around Words tool allows you to instantly wrap every word in your text with custom characters or patterns, streamlining formatting tasks for coding, documentation, or creative writing.
Background
A writer needs to emphasize every word in a list of key features for a technical manual.
Problem
Manually typing double asterisks around dozens of words is tedious and error-prone.
How to use
Paste the feature list into the input and set the symbol pattern to '**'.
symbol: '**', preserveSpaces: trueOutcome
Every word is instantly converted to bold format, such as **Feature** **One** **Feature** **Two**.
Background
A developer needs to convert a plain list of strings into a JavaScript array format.
Problem
Each word needs to be wrapped in quotes to be valid syntax.
How to use
Input the list of items and set the symbol pattern to '"'.
symbol: '"', preserveSpaces: trueOutcome
Yes, the tool applies your specified pattern to both sides of every word.
The tool identifies words based on spacing; punctuation attached to words will be included within the wrapped pattern.
Yes, the tool is designed to maintain your original spacing and formatting structure.
You can process large blocks of text, though extremely long documents may perform better in smaller segments.
The tool will return the original text as no pattern was provided to wrap the words.
The list is transformed into a quoted format, ready to be copied directly into a code editor.