Get all strings between two curly braces using regex in javascript

Question

I need to get an array of all strings that are contained in curly brackets using JavaScript.

 {{text is here}}

note that the text could contain all special characters and could be multi line i have tried this so far regex test

\{{(.*?)\}}

Possible duplicate of [Regex Match all characters between two strings](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6109882/regex-match-all-characters-between-two-strings) — phuzi, Mar 13 '18 at 09:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '18 at 10:02

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In your demo you enabled m flag which is a wrong flag here. You need s flag or even without flags:

{{([^]*?)}}

Note: You don't need to escape braces here.

answered Mar 13 '18 at 10:02

revo

Ted · Answer 2 · 2018-03-13T09:47:18.950

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Try the following:

(?<=\{{)(.*?)(?=\}})

it works for

{{text is here}}

edited Mar 13 '18 at 09:47

answered Mar 13 '18 at 09:44

Ted

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But it also work for {text is here} which is not what is asked. – Nirnae Mar 13 '18 at 09:46
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@Nirnae - updated my answer to `(?<=\{{)(.*?)(?=\}})` – Ted Mar 13 '18 at 09:47
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Lookbehinds are not supported by all major browsers yet. – revo Mar 13 '18 at 10:00

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