Match by Exterior Regex

match-exterior.js

// Try

/{(.*?)}/

// 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





// 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.