Replacing quote marks around strings in Vim?

Question

I have something akin to and need to change the single quotation marks to double quotation marks. I tried :s/\\\'.*\\\'/\

Answer 1

unless i'm missing something, wouldn't s/\'/"/g work?

Answer 2

Presuming you want to do this on an entire file ...

N Mode:

ggvG$ [SHIFT+:]  

X Mode:

'<,'>/'/" [RET]