enclose each character of string in {}

[Bill Kristy]

I have a long string of random characters, and I need each character enclosed in brackets.

For example, I want to transform
abcd
into
{a}{b}{c]{d}

Can I do this with Notepad++? Or alternative suggestion please?

[PeterJones]

@Bill-Kristy ,

Using

• Search Mode = Regular Expression
• Find What= .
• and Replace With = {$1}

you should get what you want.

update: sorry for the typo: as others clarified below, should be {$0}

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[Bill Kristy]

@PeterJones Thank you very much for your reply!

Close, but what that got me was:
{}{}{]{}

In other words, a pair of empty brackets for each character.

[Alan Kilborn]

I think @PeterJones made a typo; should be:

Replace With = {$0}

[mkupper]

@Bill-Kristy, @PeterJones had a typo.

Regular expression search for .
Replace with {$0}

An alternative is to search for (.) and to replace with {$1}

$0 in a replacement part is the entire thing that was matched in the search part.
$1 in a replacement part is the first capture group which is the thing in (parentheses)

[Bill Kristy]

@Alan-Kilborn @mkupper Thank you very much everyone, {$0} did the trick! Pure gold for me, thanks again!