Converting ″Straight Quotes″ to “Curly Quotes”

Question

I have an application which uses a Javascript-based rules engine. I need a way to convert regular straight quotes into curly (or smart) quotes. It’d be easy to just do a string.replace for ["], only this will only insert one case of the curly quote.

The best way I could think of was to replace the first occurrence of a quote with a left curly quote and every other one following with a left, and the rest right curly.

Is there a way to accomplish this using Javascript?

Answer 1

'foo "foo bar" "bar"'.replace(/"([-a-zA-Z0-9 ]+)"/g, function(wholeMatch, m1){
    return "“" + m1 + "”";
});