[SOLVED] Add double qoutation at specific location in words using sed

Issue

I'm trying to clean words :

{"id":1, "name":Robert}, {"id":2, "name":"Skylar"}, {"id":3, "name":"Ben"}, {"id":4, "name":Anne}

become have double quotation for all words after "name": like below:

{"id":1, "name":"Robert"}, {"id":2, "name":"Skylar"}, {"id":3, "name":"Ben"}, {"id":4, "name":"Anne"}

How do I clean this using sed?

Thanks

Solution

sed 's/\("name":\)\([A-Za-z]\+\)/\1"\2"/g' file

• \("name":\) (ERE: ("name":)) matches "name": and places it in capture group 1,
• \([A-Za-z]\+\) (ERE: ([A-Za-z]+)) matches a group of chars comprising letters A to Z and a to z and places it in capture group 2,
• \1 and \2 expand to contents of capture groups.

Answered By - oguz ismail