reg exp

[WindomEarle]

I'm confused with that reg exp syntax and have no time to study it carefuly. All I want is this:

with preg_match search for a piece of text what:

starts with {
ends with }
contains text, text, number, number between { and }. those 2 texts indeed may contain any number of words / symbols.

i tried those:

"{(.)}"
"{.)}"
"^{(.*)}$"

and so on but i always get error 🙁

thanks for help

[laserlight]

"those 2 texts indeed may contain any number of words / symbols"

in that case, why do you need to specify text, text?
Also, since digits are symbols, you dont need the 2 numbers either.
Rather, all you are searching for is:
{text}

I'm not very good at regex myself, but one possible solution could be:

<?php
$str = "bla{{blablack20}sheep}";
if (preg_match("/\{([^\{\}]*)\}/", $str, $matches) == 1)
	echo $matches[1];
else
	echo "Not found";
?>