Question

I am still not all that good when it comes to writing Regex patterns and am having issues with trying to figure out a search pattern for the following string:

{embed_video('RpcF9EYXZpZFBhY2tfRklOQUwuZj','575','352','video_player')}

I basically need to search a page for anything in between the hash {} marks.

I have tried this:

string = $(".content").text();
string.match("^{[\w-]}");

But its not working… any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks for the help everybody! This is what I did to make it work:

$("div", "html, body").each(function(){
        var text = $(this).text();

        if(text.match("^\{.*\}$")) {
            console.log("FOUND");
        }
    })

Answer 1

If you are using eclipse by any chance, there is a regular expression plugin with which you can play around and see how your regular expression searches your text.

I would try this

string.match("^\{.*\}$");