How to remove quotes surrounding the first two columns in Vim?

Question

Say I have the following style of lines in a text file:

\"12\" \"34\" \"some text     \"
\"56\" \"78\" \"some more text\"
.
.
.
etc.

I want

Answer 1

The other solutions are good. You can also try...

:1,$s/^"\(\w\+\)"/\1/gc

For more Vim regex help also see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_patterns.