Stripping unwanted characters

[Seraph]

Hi

A forum I am a member of has just upgraded its software. The result is pretty good, but a major distraction is that formatting has gone haywire in the process of moving posts across from the old version. For instance, quote tags did not translate properly. In the course of the upgrade all tags turned from

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[quote]someone sad something[/quote]

to something like

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[quote:eca9270a64]someone said something[/quote:eca9270a64]

which of course stuffs things right up. The same thing happens with other functions, such as [image], and so on.

Manually sweeping through three quarters of a million legacy posts is of course not viable, so my question is this: Is there a program that can go through those posts and strip those surplus characters automatically?

Thanks in advance.

[Stoker]

You can reparse bbcodes with the Support Tool Kit from phpbb.com
Its worth a try though I am not sure its the solution.

[Seraph]

You can reparse bbcodes with the Support Tool Kit from phpbb.com
Its worth a try though I am not sure its the solution.

Thank you. I passed the message on to the admins of that forum.

Any further suggestions will be welcome.