Question

I need to capture everything between curly brackets. So if I have the string:

{this} {is a} blah {test}

should return [this, is a, test].

My code looks like this:

var myString = "{this} {is a} blah {test}";
var parts = (/{([^{}]+)}/g).exec(myString);

//   parts = [{this}, {is a}, {test}]  


var parts = (/{([^{}]+)}/g).exec(myString);
//   parts = [{this}, this]

Any ideas/help?

Answer 1

I think you’re over-egging the pudding:

var rex = /\{([^}]+)\}/g;
var str = "{this} {is a} blah {test}";
var m;
for (m = rex.exec(str); m; m = rex.exec(str)) {
    console.log(m[1]);
}

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