Did not work either. Not with string that I used in my original post. I got the same answer.
> (Of course, there is a difference between ASCII double quote (") and the angled quotes in your string - you may or not want “ and ” instead.)
THAT was the issue. It did not occur to me that those were not ASCII double quotes.
Went back and copy pasted those angel quotes, and it worked.
Code:
:s/”/\"/g
:s/“/\"/g