Get between curly braces including the first and the last curly braces

Asked Jul 30 '18 at 18:01

Active Jul 30 '18 at 18:34

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Code I have:

I want to get between (including) the first curly braces to the last (including):

<html lang=3D"pl-US"> <head> </head> <body> <div>  <script data-scope=3D"in=
boxmarkup" type=3D"application/json">{
  "api_version": "1.0",
  "publisher": {
    "api_key": "61d9",
    "name": "Google Alerts"
  },
  "entity": {
    "external_key": "Google Alert - Adidas"
  },
  "updates": {
    "snippets": [ {
      "icon": "BOOKMARK",
      "message": "lala (Nike)"
    } ]
  },
  "cards": [ {
    "title": "Google Alert - Adidas",
    "subtitle": "Nike and Adidas",
    "actions": [ {
      "name": "Sam",
      "url": "https://www.google.com"} ],
    "widgets": [ {
      "type": "LINK",
      "title": "lala (Nike)"
    } ]
  } ]
}
</script> <!--[if mso]>
 <table><tr><td width=3D650>
<![endif]-->

When I use \{([^()]|())*\}, it returns me weird one that doesn't include all (shown in the code). The plan is to parse the data and use as JSON.

I only need everything between (including) first occurrence of { and last occurrence of }.

edited Jul 30 '18 at 18:34

asked Jul 30 '18 at 18:01

AmazingDayToday

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which programming environment/language are you using? – trincot Jul 30 '18 at 18:04
@trincot, javascript – AmazingDayToday Jul 30 '18 at 18:05
Try `{.*}(?=$)` [here](https://regex101.com/r/c0sAeH/2) – Paolo Jul 30 '18 at 18:05
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@AmazingDayToday `JSON.parse()`? – Hatchet Jul 30 '18 at 18:05
Then use JavaScript's built in `JSON.parse` – trincot Jul 30 '18 at 18:05
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Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags – Jonas Wilms Jul 30 '18 at 18:06
@JonasW., I know that parsing HTML is not a good idea, but I really need it. :-) – AmazingDayToday Jul 30 '18 at 18:08
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Parsing JSON with Regex is also not a good idea, and no you don't need bad ideas. – Jonas Wilms Jul 30 '18 at 18:09
I don't understand what's wrong with parsing it right off the bat. – Hatchet Jul 30 '18 at 18:09
@Hatchet, I understand that JSON.parse() would work, if... there was no many other symbols. Please see the link. – AmazingDayToday Jul 30 '18 at 18:11
Wtf. I just realized that You are actually trying to parse JSON *inside* HTML with Regex. – Jonas Wilms Jul 30 '18 at 18:23
@JonasW., yes, sir! – AmazingDayToday Jul 30 '18 at 18:24
I only need everything between (including) first occurrence of `{` and last occurrence of `}`. – AmazingDayToday Jul 30 '18 at 18:26
[*Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.* - Jamie Zawinski](http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247) – Jul 30 '18 at 18:30
Please feel free to recommend better ways to get what I want. I mean if you think parsing HTML is not a good idea. Thanks. – AmazingDayToday Jul 30 '18 at 18:32

Get between curly braces including the first and the last curly braces

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