Java Regex matching between curly braces

Question

I need to parse a log file and get the times and associated function call string This is stored in the log file as so: {\"time\" : \"2012-09-24T03:08:50\", \"message\" : \"C

Answer 1

you need to escape '{' & '}' with a '\'

so: "{(.*?)}" becomes: "\\{(.*?)\\}"

where you have to escape the '\' with another '\' first

see: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html for a comprehensive list of characters that need escaping...