Unfortunately, despite having tried to learn regex at least one time a year for as many years as I can remember, I always forget as I use them so infrequently. This year my new year's resolution is to not try and learn regex again - So this year to save me from tears I'll give it to Stack Overflow. (Last Christmas remix).
I want to pass in a string in this format {getThis}
, and be returned the string getThis
. Could anyone be of assistance in helping to stick to my new year's resolution?
Related questions on Stack Overflow:
If your string will always be of that format, a regex is overkill:
>>> var g='{getThis}';
>>> g.substring(1,g.length-1)
"getThis"
substring(1
means to start one character in (just past the first {
) and ,g.length-1)
means to take characters until (but not including) the character at the string length minus one. This works because the position is zero-based, i.e. g.length-1
is the last position.
For readers other than the original poster: If it has to be a regex, use /{([^}]*)}/
if you want to allow empty strings, or /{([^}]+)}/
if you want to only match when there is at least one character between the curly braces. Breakdown:
/
: start the regex pattern
{
: a literal curly brace
(
: start capturing
[
: start defining a class of characters to capture
^}
: "anything other than }
"]
: OK, that's our whole class definition*
: any number of characters matching that class we just defined)
: done capturing}
: a literal curly brace must immediately follow what we captured/
: end the regex patternTry
/{(.*?)}/
That means, match any character between { and }, but don't be greedy - match the shortest string which ends with } (the ? stops * being greedy). The parentheses let you extract the matched portion.
Another way would be
/{([^}]*)}/
This matches any character except a } char (another way of not being greedy)
/\{([^}]+)\}/
/ - delimiter
\{ - opening literal brace escaped because it is a special character used for quantifiers eg {2,3}
( - start capturing
[^}] - character class consisting of
^ - not
} - a closing brace (no escaping necessary because special characters in a character class are different)
+ - one or more of the character class
) - end capturing
\} - the closing literal brace
/ - delimiter
Try this:
/[^{\}]+(?=})/g
For example
Welcome to RegExr v2.1 by #{gskinner.com}, #{ssd.sd} hosted by Media Temple!
will return gskinner.com
, ssd.sd
.
Here's a simple solution using javascript replace
var st = '{getThis}';
st = st.replace(/\{|\}/gi,''); // "getThis"
As the accepted answer above points out the original problem is easily solved with substring, but using replace can solve the more complicated use cases
If you have a string like "randomstring999[fieldname]" You use a slightly different pattern to get fieldname
var nameAttr = "randomstring999[fieldname]";
var justName = nameAttr.replace(/.*\[|\]/gi,''); // "fieldname"
This one works in Textmate and it matches everything in a CSS file between the curly brackets.
\{(\s*?.*?)*?\}
selector {.
.
matches here
including white space.
.
.}
If you want to further be able to return the content, then wrap it all in one more set of parentheses like so:
\{((\s*?.*?)*?)\}
and you can access the contents via $1.
This also works for functions, but I haven't tested it with nested curly brackets.
You want to use regex lookahead and lookbehind. This will give you only what is inside the curly braces:
(?<=\{)(.*?)(?=\})
Try this
let path = "/{id}/{name}/{age}";
const paramsPattern = /[^{\}]+(?=})/g;
let extractParams = path.match(paramsPattern);
console.log("extractParams", extractParams) // prints all the names between {} = ["id", "name", "age"]
Regex for getting arrays of string with curly braces enclosed occurs in string, rather than just finding first occurrence.
/\{([^}]+)\}/gm
var re = /{(.*)}/;
var m = "{helloworld}".match(re);
if (m != null)
console.log(m[0].replace(re, '$1'));
The simpler .replace(/.*{(.*)}.*/, '$1')
unfortunately returns the entire string if the regex does not match. The above code snippet can more easily detect a match.
i have looked into the other answers, and a vital logic seems to be missing from them . ie, select everything between two CONSECUTIVE brackets,but NOT the brackets
so, here is my answer
\{([^{}]+)\}
You can use this regex recursion to match everythin between, even another {}
(like a JSON text) :
\{([^()]|())*\}
©2020 All rights reserved.