Left Double & Right Double quotes in Find & Replace

[Alan]

I am going through a 300 page story replacing regular quotes (") with Left Double and Right Double quotes. I did a Find & Replace for a quote after the Paragraph End Mark with a Left Double after the Paragraph End Mark. When I did a Replace All it went into an endless loop and did not finish as if it considered the Left Double quote the same as a regular quote, the same happened when using a Right Double quote in replacement. I was able to escape out of both instances. How do I get this to work so it does not see Left & Right as a regular quote?

[Robert]

Hi Alan,
You can use a regex pattern from the document posted on this forum at Atlantis Word Processor - Examples Of Regex Patterns III:
The relevant Find/Replace regex pattern in the above document is named “Find text enclosed within straight double quotes. Replace the straight double quotes with smart double quotes”
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

[admin]

When I did a Replace All it went into an endless loop and did not finish as if it considered the Left Double quote the same as a regular quote, the same happened when using a Right Double quote in replacement.

Please check the "Exact match" option in the "Find/Replace" dialog (you might need to click the "More" button in the dialog to access the option).

[Alan]

Thanks Robert for the link to Regex, I now have it loaded on my computer for the next time I need a complicated Find & Replace like I have in the past.
Thanks Admin, the Exact match got me exactly what I needed to finish my editing.