#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use feature qw/say/; chomp(my @fields = ); my $table_fieldname_array = "('" . join("','", @fields) . "')"; say $table_fieldname_array; __DATA__ FIELD1 FIELD2 FIELDN #### $ perl 1117442.pl ('FIELD1','FIELD2','FIELDN') $