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I did something like this with my Message Converter script if you have a look.  It isn't the easiest of things but here is an extract of what I did.

code:

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[...]
var bb = /\[b\]/gi;
var eb = /\[\/b\]/gi;
[...]
function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd,Message){
        while ((arr = eb.exec(Message)) != null){
        var prev = RegExp.leftContext;
        var MessageEnd = RegExp.rightContext;
        Inner3:
        while ((arr1 = bb.exec(prev)) != null){
            var extract = RegExp.rightContext;
            var MessageBeg = RegExp.leftContext;
            if (eb.exec(extract)!=null){
                prev = MessageBeg;
                while(bb.exec(prev)!=null){
                }
                continue Inner3;
            }
        }
        Message = MessageBeg+""+extract+""+MessageEnd;
        while(eb.exec(Message)!=null){
        }
        continue Outer3;
    }

[...]
    return Message;
}

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There are probably some better ways of going about some of the things but I know this works as a starting point.  This extract just finds the last instance of [/b] and finds the corresponding [b ] and will exclude any full [b ]...[/ b] in the middle(EDIT: relised it didn't so this, only the colour and background parts did as the likes of bolding doesn't need to be, though i should really check for any and make them not do anything rather than add 2 pointless characters) and replaces the beginning and end with the bold and ending of the bold for IRC style.  I hope this helps and if you need any help understanding my code then you can add me the WLM.

EDIT2: as I look over the code again, I probably don't need the continues in there as it should do the same thing with or without them there. Sorry for the edits btw.
* markee writes a mental note about his dodgy scripting ability