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I'm developing an application in English language but my English is not very good.

The application consists in to load a text file, specify a prefix and a suffix, then when the file is loaded and the prefix/suffix are set, the user needs to click in a button to prefix and suffix all the lines of the textfile.

The problem is I don't know how to name the button to perform the action of Prefix and Suffix the text.

To understand it better, if I have an application which cuts some text, then the button name to perform the action would be "Cut the text", if I have an application to copy some text, the button name would be "Copy the text"

In this case I don't know which is the correct verb to Prefix and Suffix, maybe the correct verb would be "Affix the text"?

I'm from Spain. In Spanish there exist a verb to Prefix, but I think doesn't exist any verb to Suffix a word, and neither to Prefix and Suffix at the same time, but maybe I'm wrong.

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  • To make sure we understand: Your program reads in a file and adds a prefix and suffix to each line, like this? line1 line2 line3->aaline1zz aaline2zz aaline3zz
    – chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
    Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 11:38
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    Affix is used with to: "affix A to B". Since you're dealing with three texts - the source, the prefix and the suffix - I suggest Concatenate texts. If you think that will not be familiar to your audience, then Join texts is a simpler alternative.
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 11:44
  • As a programmer, the UI best choice is probably not to have the button you're talking about; it sounds like your UI is more difficult to understand than necessary.
    – chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
    Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 12:00
  • @Chrylis you understanded good. And the UI needs to be friendly to the user to perform actions using buttons instead perform actions automatically in execution time.
    – ElektroStudios
    Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 12:21
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    Oh, in this case, you're better off using text that describes the intent of what's happening. I suggest "Mark answers" (also "Question/Answer delimiter", and note with a border or a change in text that the prefix/suffix are for the correct answer).
    – chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
    Commented Sep 27, 2013 at 13:44

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I would use "Build answer sheet" or "Assemble answer sheet" or "Format answer sheet" or "Insert markers".

Also you have misspelled 'containing' in two places.

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