GREP to find string of quotes

I have some strange "strings" of quotes for which I need to search where there are consecutive single and double quotes with nothing between them. So "'"'Wording here.'"' More here."
Can GREP be used to find a string of quotes that might consist of any number or combination of single and double quotes? The string would consist of either all open or all close quotes but could be any combination of double and single, starting or ending with double or single.
Thanks,
Ken

SRiegel wrote:
['"]+
(that's a single and a double quote inside the brackets) If you do this with typographer's quotes turned on [..]
For the finding part, there is no need to toggle smart quotes off or on. For example, a single ' will find all three variants, whereas ~[ will only match curly open, ~] curly closed, and ~' only straight ones.
Other than that, yeah, you want to make sure anyway Curly Quotes is active for the replacements.

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