Getting content between curly braces in JavaScript with regex

Question

I am trying to get content between curly braces with JavaScript. I found this thread: Regex to get string between curly braces "{I want what's between the curly bra

Answer 1

"{I want what's between the curly braces}".replace(/{(.*)}/, "$1");

this should work, cheers.

Note: you'll "get everything" in the braces, even if it's an empty string.

Updated: If you are going to match the first character which in the middle of a string, use "match":

"how are you {I want what's between the curly braces} words".match(/{(.*)}/)[1];

You can just do:

console.log("how are you {I want what's between the curly braces} words".match(/{(.*)}/));

then you'll see a list of the match items, exploit them to whatever you want.

Gory details: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp