I'd like to read in a file (.txt, .csv, or Tab Delimited) and quote every word that doesn's already have them. An example of the text in question is:

"Smith, Robert",94 N. Orange Grove,# 25,West Hollywood,CA,90046,(323)555-1234,931

Some of the issue is that I don't know how the file will look so I guess I would need to convert all files to CSV (so if there are TABS I'd need to convert them to COMMAS.)

What would I do to determine the delimeter, and how would I pull each word out to quote it?

Or where should I be looking for the answers to these questions?
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