Help Me Regular Expression Guru's

[Leaf369]

Hi,
I'm trying to parse a file/String and return variables and then replace them with their values.

it seemed to me to be a common request but cannot find out how to do it anywhere on the Web.

e.g.
$Text = "{Var} is what I want and {Foo}, but {NotThis} and {NotThisOne}";

//Ive worked out how to do it using
peg_match_all("/{.[^{\}]*})/",$Text,$matches);}

//but not with the escaping of {}'s
//this will make $matches[1] = array({Var}", "{Foo}","{NotThis}","{NotThisOne}");
var_dump($matches[1]);

//I want $matches[1] to return only ("{Var},"{Foo}")

//I've come up with this: - works most times
preg_match_all("/^(\{.(\})*\})/",$Text,$matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);

//but it will not work if the { is the first character or near the beginning of the string.

Please Help..

Thanx

[Leaf369]

Well I came up with a solution,

it's not exactly to the book but it is a work around...

function getVars($Text){
//add a space to Text as it will miss the first onem - work around
$Text=" ".$Text;
preg_match_all("/^(\{)/",$Text,$matches);
$matches = $matches[1];
return $matches;
}

$Text = "{Yes} ok {this} and{that} but not{him} or {her} ok with that!";

$match = getVars($Text);

var_dump($match);

and thats it.