Question

I am using GoogleTranslate() function to translate one language to another in Google spreadsheets.
I have a sentence in one (known) language at column A1 ‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet’ and i want the translation of it in English at column B1.
so i used this:

=GoogleTranslate(A1, "li", "en")

The result is:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet".

There is double quotes now.
I want the translation to be with single quote (like before),
I found its Google’s bug (yes, i said it Google’s bug lol).
So the solution maybe in within regular expression or something else…

How can I replace the double quotes (in the being and the end only) of the translated sentence in Google spreadsheets?

Answer 1

Based on the docs it looks like Google Spreadsheets only allows you to search with regex and not replace, but in case you actually can:

Find: "(.*?)"
Replace: '\1'

You can of course also do this with some other program using the same regexen.