Add quotation marks to each word in a file

Question

I have some words separated by commas in a file, such as below:

variable1, variable2, variable3, variable4

What's the easiest way to use BASH for adding quotation marks to each word?

The end result should look like:

"variable1", "variable2", "variable3", "variable4"

Answer 1

Simply with sed:

sed 's/[^[:space:],]\+/"&"/g' file

The output:

"variable1", "variable2", "variable3", "variable4"