I have paragraphs like this:
"{~1.6} This is another paragraph {~1} with curly braces.{~6.8}"
I want to match {~<int or float>}
So far I’ve came to this regex: /\{(\~(\d*\.?\d+),?)\}/g
It works just fine but sometimes there will be some other characters before or after ~<int or float> like this:
"{:.class ~1.6 #id} This is another paragraph {~1 .class #id} with curly braces.{:#id ~6.8}"
I don’t know in advance the content before or after ~<int or float>, all that I know is that all the content is between curly braces.
How can I match every {<some content here>} as long as it contains at least one ~<int or float> occurrence?
>Solution :
/{([^}]*(~\d*(?:\.\d+)?)[^}]*)}/
Match the brace, any number of non-brace characters, then the bit you were interested in (tilde and a number, with optional decimal point and decimal digits), then possibly some more non-brace characters, and finally the closing brace. regex101
Note that a brace does not need to be escaped in JavaScript unless it contains a valid quantifier (number or pair of numbers separated by a comma, possibly with one number missing), though it doesn’t hurt; tilde does not need escaping at all.