REGEX assistance with nested pattern?

I have the following string I need to parse:

[QUOTE=Mark]
  [QUOTE=Jack]
    How are you doing Mark?
  [/QUOTE]
 Good to hear from you Jack, Im doing fine!
[/QUOTE]

I am basicly trying to convern this set of BBCode into HTML by converting the [quote] areas into stylized DIVs using the following REGEX

text = text.replace(/\[QUOTE=(开发者_C百科.*?)]([\s\S]*?)\[\/QUOTE\]/gi, '<div class="quotes"><i>Quote by $1</i><br />$2</div>');

This code will properly parse out the first set of QUOTES, but not the nested level quotes. Any ides how I could impprove the expression?

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If that's all you're doing, the solution is much simpler:

text = text.replace(/\[QUOTE=(.*?)\]/gi,
                    '<div class="quotes"><i>Quote by $1</i><br />');
text = text.replace(/\[\/QUOTE\]/gi, '</div>');

Your code works too, but you have to apply it multiple times--two in this case, but if there are triply-nested quotes you'll have to make three passes, and so on.

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When you get into nested levels you lose the "regular" nature of the input. It becomes more "context free" like HTML which is always a hard spot for regexes.

I suggest you tokenize the string and parse it with somethink like a recursive descent parser.