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

{} in regexp have special meaning, so they need to be escaped.

Usually escaping is achieved by preceeding the character to be escaped with a backslash. In a character class defined with square brackets, you shouldn't need to do this

So something like

Pattern.compile("\{[^{}]*\}");

Could be nearer to what you want to do