2012/4/9 Iachetti Federico MartùÏ <iachetti.federico / gmail.com>:
> Here's a possible approach
>
> If there should be just one match:
>
> pry(main)> var = "this sentence is my variable and the important information
> is {inside these brackets}"
> => "this sentence is my variable and the important information is {inside
> these brackets}"
> pry(main)> new_var = var.match(/({.*})/)[1]
> => "{inside these brackets}"
>
> If there could be more than one match:
>
> pry(main)> new_var2 = var.match(/({.*})/).captures
> => ["{inside these brackets}"]
> pry(main)>
>
> new_var has only a match, while new_var2 has an array of all the
> occurrencies

Careful, the * is greedy, so it will consume as many characters as it can:

> s = "adf {firs¥åt one} seomt¥åhing {seco¥ånd one} dfdsf¥å"
=> "adf {first one} seomthing {second one} dfdsf"
> s[/({.*})/¥å]
=> "{first one} seomthing {second one}"

That's why I used the negative character set, to match everything that
is not a closed bracket. You can also use the ? modifier:

> s[/({.*?})¥å/]
=> "{first one}"

Jesus.