Regular expression to find string inside curly brackets Javascript

Question

I am trying to get a substring which is inside curly brackets by using regular expression.

Assuming that I have the following string:

"This is a {nice} text to search for a {cool} substring".

I'd like to be able to search for nice and cool

Answer 1

Try as follows:

var myString = "This is a {nice} text to search for a {cool} substring",
  pattern = /[^{}]*(?=\})/g;

console.log(myString.match(pattern));