regex between two special characters

Question

Is there a way to replicate this PHP snippet in JQuery or Javascript...

Answer 1

You can get all blocks of text between { and } into an array with this:

function getBracedText(input) {
    var re = /\{(.*?)\}/g, matches, output = [];
    while (matches = re.exec(input)) {
        output.push(matches[1]);
    }
    return(output);
}

var str = "Some text {tag} and more {text}";
var results = getBracedText(str);
// results == ["tag", "text"];

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/DT4Km/