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I have a JSON string and need to find an nested object and only want the object matching my regexp returned.

{
  "some": {
    "nested": {
       "stuff": [
         {
           "bla": "blub1",
           "bar": "bar"
         },
         {
           "bla": "blub2",
           "bar": "foo"
         },
         {
           "bla": "blub3",
           "bar": "foobar"
         }
      ]
   }
}

I almost got it with this reg exp /{(.*?"bar": "foo".*?)}/gs but this does not return only the matching object.

I only want it to return this:

{
    "bla": "blub2",
    "bar": "foo"
}

See:

I actually don't want to use regex but I'm trying to find the best solution to find a object in a nested object and thought it might work good with regex.

EDIT: I unterstand that this is not a good approach but I just want to try and see the performance between regex and parsing the JSON and and make a deep search

I have a JSON string and need to find an nested object and only want the object matching my regexp returned.

{
  "some": {
    "nested": {
       "stuff": [
         {
           "bla": "blub1",
           "bar": "bar"
         },
         {
           "bla": "blub2",
           "bar": "foo"
         },
         {
           "bla": "blub3",
           "bar": "foobar"
         }
      ]
   }
}

I almost got it with this reg exp /{(.*?"bar": "foo".*?)}/gs but this does not return only the matching object.

I only want it to return this:

{
    "bla": "blub2",
    "bar": "foo"
}

See: https://regex101./r/mK3oI6/3

I actually don't want to use regex but I'm trying to find the best solution to find a object in a nested object and thought it might work good with regex.

EDIT: I unterstand that this is not a good approach but I just want to try and see the performance between regex and parsing the JSON and and make a deep search

• javascript
• json
• regex

Share Improve this question Follow edited Aug 24, 2016 at 14:33 Heiko asked Aug 24, 2016 at 11:19 HeikoHeiko 30411 gold badge22 silver badges1010 bronze badges 4

• 1 regex really isn't the tool to work with json. For instance, a naive implementation will break when JSON string values contain the } character. More robust implementations are possible but can't handle every possible case, and are generally not worth the hassle. Maybe you could tell us what environment you're in so that we suggest another more appropriate tool? – Aaron Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 11:21
• 1 Don't use regex for scenarios like this. Just parse your json string to a json object and traves through the object to get the part you want. You can write a match function to it. – Jerad Rutnam Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 11:33
• What exactly are you trying to match? – user663031 Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 13:54
• As described: the nested object which has the property "bar" with the value "foo" – Heiko Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 14:22

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If you are deadset on using regex:

[^{]*?({\s+"bla[^}]*?})

basically, does a non greedy search until the first { <space> "bar, captures until the first closing curly brace.

edit: if you want only the Nth instance, [^{]*?(?:{\s+"bla[^}]*?}){N}[^{]*?({\s+"bla[^}]*?})

if you want only the one with bar : foo:

.*{([^}]*bar.*?foo"[^}]*?)}

USING JSON WITH REGEX IS A BAD IDEA. bees fickle and could break easily. It would be a better idea to use one of the primitive iterable types, load the json using the json library, and simply index your way through it to get the data you want.

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