Regular Express

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 00:54 +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> I want to match either div and hash if the are enclosed with { } even
> if there are other char in between. For example
> 
> Assume I have the following code
> 
> {def hash = div( 'common')}
> <div>
> 
> I would like to match the first div but not the second. I tried this but no help
> 
> ^{*\b(div|hash)\b*\}
Try 
 \{.*\b(div|hash)\b.*\}

The '.*' says 'match any number of arbitrary characters', while your
original RE is saying 'match any number of "{" characters' and 'match
any number of word boundary characters'.

You may need to remove the '\' before the braces ( '{' and '}')
depending on which RE parser is being used.

Tim