Regex conversion on bbcode

Question

We are moving from phpbb to a simpler system and some of the bbcode needs converting, particularly the "quote" code. The current phpbb based quote code looks like this:

[quote="username":nw4lek0o]The quoted text[/quote:nw4lek0o]

and it needs to be simplified to this:

[quote=username]The quoted text[/quote]

So, basically two things: strip the double quotes from around the username, and strip the ID string from the opening and closing tag.

I'm not good at Regex. Help?

Answer 1

Use this regex:

\[quote="(.+?)":.+?\](.+?)\[/quote:.+?]

And replace it with:

[quote=$1]$2[/quote]

Demo: http://regex101.com/r/jL3xU2

Answer 2

find (?=\").|(?::\w+) replace with blank.

demo here : http://regex101.com/r/oN8fS2