Regex extract string between 2 curly braces

Question

I have the following short codes:

Dear {{name}},

You are being invited for the following event: {{event}}

Answer 1

Use preg_match to match the text between 2 curly braces :

$subject = "{{Lorem}}";
$pattern = '/\{\{([^}]+)\}\}/';
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

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