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ysamjo

I want to match any code that is between two curly brackets.

lorem ipsum {loriipsu} lorem ipsum...

I've got no further markup.
I think it has to be done with :before and :after but I don't get it yet.

Mr KiTT3N

Within what languages are you using jquery? is this a form submission (php)? or you looking straight up xhtml/css?

frujo

I think you need to read more about regular expressions. Then create pattern of selecting the inner content of braces. If we talk about JavaScript it will look like:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd\">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1251\">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type=\"text/javascript\">
function myFunction () {
var myText = document.getElementById('myTextArea').value;
myText = myText.match(/{[^}]+}/g) 
alert (myText);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<textarea id=\"myTextArea\">lorem ipsum {loriipsu} { lorem } ipsum...</textarea>
<script type=\"text/javascript\">
myFunction();
</script>
</body>
</html>

In a sample above /{[^}]+}/ is a pattern that selects everything inside of curly braces. g is activating the returning of array of found matches. Without it only the first match will be returned.

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