non greedy regex to select everything between curly braces but not the starting and ending curly braces

Question

I need a greedy regex to select everything between curly braces but not the starting and ending curly braces for example:

{here {first} and {second} and {third}}

output should be {first}, {second} {third}

Where is your question and efforts? – Jan Oct 24 '17 at 17:11 — Jan, Oct 24 '17 at 17:11

Mene · Answer 1 · 2017-10-24T17:15:36.133

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{[^{]+?} would work for your test case. However, this won't support arbitrary nesting, which is not possible with regex. If that's what you're looking for, you'll need a parser.

Example: https://regex101.com/r/GrqGdS/1

Edit:

if { is written at places where the cardinality operator cannot occur, there is no need to escape it.

edited Oct 24 '17 at 17:15

answered Oct 24 '17 at 17:11

Mene

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No need to escape everything, [**`{[^{}]+}`**](https://regex101.com/r/WvOzaV/1/) works as expected and is more readable. – Jan Oct 24 '17 at 17:14
You're right, thanks! – Mene Oct 24 '17 at 17:15

non greedy regex to select everything between curly braces but not the starting and ending curly braces

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