visual studio - trying to use regular expression to surround my text with double quotes -

the following small scale example. how use search , replace (regular expression option) surround each line double quotes in visual studio 2012 search , replace?

list item     item 1     item 2 end list item  "list item"     "item 1"     "item 2" "end list item" 

i agree, vs find & replace regexes pretty confusing.

let's start. need surround text of each line quotes, leading spaces outside of quotes.

so need create first group catch leading whitespaces , tabs, , second 1 catch every word , space until end of line, , catch nothing if line empty.

then replace first group, quote char, second group, , quote char.

regex translation:

find: ([\t ]*)([\w ]+)

replace by: $1"$2"