Literal Text Before and After Each Line
Add literal text before and after physical lines while retaining their original contents and separators. This is useful for a draft list, not a CSV, JSON, HTML or SQL serializer. Common examples are a simple Markdown bullet draft with a literal prefix, bracketed labels for review, and a shared folder-name prefix on a filename list, all without running a command.
Wrapping a List Without Losing a Blank
Input is Apple, a blank line, then Pear. Prefix is an opening bracket and suffix is a closing bracket.
Skip blanks on modifies 2 items and leaves the blank line alone:
[Apple] [Pear]
Skip blanks off modifies all 3 items, so the blank line becomes an empty pair of brackets:
[Apple] [] [Pear]
Settings, Line Endings and Size Limits
Paste one item per physical line and enter a prefix, a suffix or both; spaces in these fields count. Keep Skip blank lines enabled to leave empty and recognized-whitespace-only lines unchanged, then review the automatic output and modified-line count before Copy.
CRLF, LF and lone CR separate lines and stay in their original positions. A trailing separator creates a final empty item. With skipping off, that item also receives both affixes. Completely empty input has zero items. Skipping preserves blank lines; it does not delete them.
Affixes are literal single-line strings up to 1,000 UTF-16 units each. Backslash-n stays two characters. Input allows 1,000,000 units and 20,000 lines; output allows 5,000,000 units, checked before expansion. These are size limits, not a speed guarantee.
What Literal Wrapping Does Not Do
Quotes inside values are not escaped, HTML contents are not encoded and a suffix comma also appears on the last processed item. Do not treat the result as safely serialized data or executable code. Blank skipping also covers tabs and recognized spaces, not every invisible format character.
Keep a source copy and check meaningful edge spaces. Use Add Line Numbers for an increasing sequence or Extract Column for its supported quoted CSV workflow. The CSV specification describes escaping requirements that literal wrapping does not implement.