Here is a super simple approach to create a list of quoted strings:
& { "'$($args -join "','")'" } hello this is a test
Here is the result:
'hello','this','is','a','test'
This approach effectively makes use of PowerShell’s “Command Mode” where literals are treated as arguments. You could even pipe this to Set-Clipboard and then paste it back into your code. This is much easier than having to manually put quotes around each string.
PS> & { "'$($args -join "','")'" } hello this is a test | Set-ClipBoard
PS> Get-ClipBoard
'hello','this','is','a','test'
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