Regex to match nested json objects

Question

I\'m implementing some kind of parser and I need to locate and deserialize json object embedded into other semi-structured data. I used regexp:

Answer 1

As others have suggested, a full-blown JSON parser is probably the way to go. If you want to match the key-value pairs in the simple examples that you have above, you could use:

(?<=\{)\s*[^{]*?(?=[\},])

For the input string

{title:'Title',  {data:'Data', {foo: 'Bar'}}}

This matches:

 1. title:'Title'
 2. data:'Data'
 3. foo: 'Bar'