Question

I want to find all the words enclosed within a {} using a regular expression.

If my string is 'The Insured Addr {Address} is not valid for {Name}',

I want to pull out only 'Address' and 'Name' . I have been trying for couple of hours without success.

Any help is really appreciated.

I tried ([/{]([a-zA-Z0-9 ]*)[}])

This does not work.

I am using C#. Also the templates can contain dot notated properties as in ‘Address.city’,’ABC.PQR.XYZ’

Answer 1

{(?<name>\w+)}

This will capture the text within the { and } within a group named name.

In C#:

Regex r = new Regex(@"{(?<name>.+?)}");
MatchCollection coll = r.Matches("The Insured Addr {Address} is not valid for {Name}");
foreach (Match m in coll) {
    Console.WriteLine(m.Groups["name"]);
}

Prints

Address
Name

on the console.