Regex To Get All Contents Within Curly Brackets

Posted by tech on July 7, 2009

Let us say your string contains this data

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{"1":"one", "2":"two"},{"3":"three", "4":"four"},{"5":"five", "6":"six"}

While regex can slow down performance, I decided to use it for this situation because I can do it using only a regex pattern. This regex will get all instances of a substring between two curly brackets { and }. In the example above, the result should be 3 entries since there are 3 sets of curly brackets. Please see the regular expression below.

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\\{[^}]*\\}