PYTHON - Capture contents inside curly braces
You can try with this:
\{(.*?)\}
Explanation
\{ matches the character { literally (case sensitive)
(.*?) 1st Capturing Group
.*?
matches any character*?
Quantifier — Matches between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy)\}
matches the character}
literally (case sensitive)
Sample Code to extract content inside curly bracket:
import re
regex = r"\{(.*?)\}"
test_str = ("Server_1 {\n"
"/directory1 /directory2\n\n"
"}\n"
"Server_2 {\n\n"
"/directory1\n\n"
"/directory2\n\n"
"}")
matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches):
for groupNum in range(0, len(match.groups())):
print (match.group(1))
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