unable to find and replace quotation mark

Paul Nemer

Hello,

I have many html files that have the wrong style quotation.

Wrong quotation: ”
Correct quotation: "

As you see, there is a difference in style. Here they are side by side: ” "

How do I replace all ” with the standard looking quotation " in Notepad++?

Thanks

Claudia Frank

@Paul-Nemer

open find in files dialog put your terms in, create a filter for your files
choose a start directory maybe include subdirectories and do replace all.

Cheers
Claudia

Paul Nemer

Thanks for the reply Claudia, but I am a bit confused on the filters.

Find what: ” (curved quotation mark)
Replace: " (straight quotation mark)
Filters: . (What do I put in filters?)

Normally, I know how to use the find and replace field, I do it to an entire directory filled with thousands of files, no problem. But it doesn’t seem to work for the quotation marks.

Thanks.

Scott Sumner

@Paul-Nemer and @Claudia-Frank

I think the difficulty may come in because Paul doesn’t know how to get the “wrong” quotation mark into the Find-what box. Indeed, if you merely type it manually into the box, it may actually be the desired quotation mark there, so a find on it could potentially find nothing. So Paul would be left with his original, undesired data.

What I would do in such a situation is make a selection out of the undesired quotation mark, then invoke the Find dialog box. At this point, Notepad++ would put the undesired quotation mark in the Find-what box, and I could easily type the desired quotation mark version in the Replace-with box. Then either doing a prompted replace action or a replace-all action would complete the task.

Paul Nemer

@Scott-Sumner
Hi Scott,

I copied the curved quotation mark (undesired quotation) and pasted it in the “find” field. and I am able to locate it no problem in a specific file. However, I am unable to replace it with the straight quotation mark. I have many html files with the wrong quotation marks that i want to replace.

Claudia Frank

@Paul-Nemer

may you explain in detail what you do?
Maybe a screenshot could be helpful as well.
If you upload the screenshot to a hoster like imgur you
could embed it into the post when using the following syntax

![](web address of the image like www.imgur.com/myimage.png)

Cheers
Claudia