regex between two special characters

Question

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

Answer 1

Something like this should do:

 var re = /{[^}]*}/g;
 var s = '{foo},bar,{fum}';

 alert(s.match(re)); // ['{foo}','{fum}']

but you may not want the "{}" included.

var re = /{([^}]*)}/g;
var s = '{foo},bar,{fum}';

var a = [];
var b;
while (b = re.exec(s)) {
  a.push(b[1]);
}

alert(a); // ['foo','fum'];

There's bound to be a way to do it with a single regular expression and no loop.