Question

Is there a way to replicate this PHP snippet in JQuery or Javascript…

<?php 
  $A = preg_match_all('#{.*(.*)}#U', $value, $B); //matches all between {} put it into array "B"
  $C = $B[1]; // array[0] = "{content}" --- array[1] = "content"
?>

I have been trying to find something similar for like 4 hours or so to no avail.
The goal is basically to find everything between { and } and then pull that information out to be useful.

I am no Javascript expert so I would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You can get all blocks of text between { and } into an array with this:

function getBracedText(input) {
    var re = /\{(.*?)\}/g, matches, output = [];
    while (matches = re.exec(input)) {
        output.push(matches[1]);
    }
    return(output);
}

var str = "Some text {tag} and more {text}";
var results = getBracedText(str);
// results == ["tag", "text"];

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/DT4Km/