Regex match when there could be matches within

Asked May 05 '19 at 22:03

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I'm not too experienced with regex, and I can't figure out how to get the match I want. Suppose you have the string

This is some text here. {p1:This is some inner text{\s1:even more inner!}{l1:blah}} and {l1:another}

What I want to do is match anything that starts with an open curly brace and ends with a closed curly brace. A match could have an inner open/close curly brace. The above string should have 2 matches:

{p1:This is some inner text{\s1:even more inner!}{l1:blah}}
{l1:another}

I've spent like an hour at regexr.com trying things like {\\?\D\d:(.|({.*}))*}

but at this point I'm super confused.

edited May 05 '19 at 22:16

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Do you really need to do this with regex? – jonrsharpe May 05 '19 at 22:03
What environment are you implementing this in? – CertainPerformance May 05 '19 at 22:04
@jonrsharpe I suppose I don't, but since I've started down this path I was curious. – Jeffrey Van Laethem May 05 '19 at 22:07
@CertainPerformance C# – Jeffrey Van Laethem May 05 '19 at 22:07
Curiosity, although valuable in general, isn't a great motivator for practical, answerable questions of the type SO is trying to collate. If you have options other than regex, use them and move on. – jonrsharpe May 05 '19 at 22:08
Does this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14952113/how-can-i-match-nested-brackets-using-regex work for you? – jammann May 05 '19 at 22:10
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@jammann C# does not support recursive patterns https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25239065/recursive-regex-in-net-r – CertainPerformance May 05 '19 at 22:16
.NET doesn't support Perl subroutine calls but one could find the same functionality using .NET *balancing groups*. Please see the dupe. – revo May 05 '19 at 22:22

Regex match when there could be matches within

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