Dreamweaver Regex: Replace dumb quotes with curly (typographic) quotes

Question

Hi all,

Does anybody know how to replace the HTML entity for dumb (straight) double quote marks (") with curly typographic html entites - “ and ” respectively?

I only know the basics of regex at the moment and was hoping that there were some good dreamweaver find-and-replace tutorials but so far have found nothing useful.

Answer 1

Try this:

Find: "((.|\s)*?)"

Replace: “$1”

The regex says to look for """ followed by any amount of any character or whitespace (without being greedy), followed by another """.

You should be absolutely sure that the " symbols always come in pairs. Otherwise you might end up with odd results.