# How do I encase text from a column in quotes?

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**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-do-i-encase-text-from-a-column-in-quotes/864 "2020-07-29T13:42:30Z")
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I am successfully pulling data from the ActiveCampaign API.

The final step is a dedupe. This finds duplicates and combines data into a new column with a comma delimeter.

However, I need to do one more thing and encase each piece of data (that is separated by the comma) into quotes.

e.g. so instead of Column 3 = apples, pears, oranges  
I want it to be like this: Column 3 = “apples”, “pears”, “oranges”

Is this possible with Parabola, if so could you point me in the right direction?  
Thanks!

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