Question

Is there a simple way to replace straight quotes with smart quotes (curly quotes?)

I’ve tried:

var the_string = example.text;

example.htmlText = the_string.replace("\"", """);

But it doesn’t appear to make the quotes curly.

Answer 1

Perhaps you’re looking to replace text within quotes using the left and right double quotation mark entities:

“ = “
” = ”

Using regex, this could be accomplish such as:

var the_string:String = "\"This\" is the \"text\".";

trace(the_string.replace(/"([^"]+)"/g, "“$1”"));

This example would produce:

“This” is the “text”.