How to select all words at a time to apply operations at same time

Question

Here is my sample data:

data=[1,SanjayMehra, HR, P1, Hyderabad(HYD), 01/12/1976, M], 
[2,AnanyaMishra, Admin, P2,Delhi(DEL), 02/05/1968, F], 
[3,RohanDiwan, Account, P3, Mumbai(BOM), 01/01/1980, M], 
[4 ,SoniaKulkarni, HR, P1, Hyderabad(HYD), 02/05/1992, F], 
[5, AnkitKapoor, Admin ,P2, Delhi(DEL), 03/07/1994, M]

I am trying to put inverted commas over every words here: The expected output is

data=["1", "SanjayMehra", "HR", "P1", "Hyderabad(HYD)", "01/12/1976", "M"], 
["2","AnanyaMishra", "Admin", "P2", "Delhi(DEL)", "02/05/1968", "F"], 
["3","RohanDiwan", "Account", "P3", "Mumbai(BOM)", "01/01/1980", "M"], 
["4" ,"SoniaKulkarni", "HR", "P1", "Hyderabad(HYD)", "02/05/1992", "F"], 
["5", "AnkitKapoor", "Admin" ,"P2", "Delhi(DEL)", "03/07/1994", "M"]

Right now I am putting multiple cursors using Alt+click before start and after end of each word and then pressing inverted commas in Visual studio code. With this approach I have to place it more no of times when word count increases. I am trying to find any more smarter and efficient way of achieving this through Visual studio code or programming language like Python

Answer 1

See regex101 demo.

Using this Find: (?<=\[|, |,)([^ ,\n\]]+)(?!\n)

and Replace: "$1"

It does assume that you do have commas between all the fields although your initial data was missing a couple of them.

Positive Lookbehind (?<=\[|, |,) with alternatives - where to start the matches, following a [ or , or ,

1st Capturing Group ([^ ,\n\]]+) stop at those characters: space, newline or ]

Negative Lookahead (?!\n) not followed by a newline - you might not need this if your data is simply one long input, without newlines.