Recently i was looking for help to extract some pattern of a URL using RegExp in flex, Few guys kindly helped me to get it done. See this I need to do it again in java layer, i
{ is a meta character in Java regexes, for bounded repetition, e.g. a{1,2} matches at least 1, at most 2 'a's. As you are not using it for repetition, you ought to escape each { with \\.