C# Regex.Match curly brackets- contents only? (exclude braces)

Question

I\'ve been unable to find an answer on this: can I use the Regex.Matches method to return only the contents of items with curly braces?

If I us

Answer 1

I always liked it explicit. So you can use "positive lookbehind" (?<=...) and "positive lookahead" (?=...) groups:

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

which means:

• require opening curly bracket before match
• collect text (of, course) - as commented before I may be [^{}]* as well
• require closing curly bracket after match