java regex help

From: Rick Venter (rick_venter_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: 27 Oct 2003 11:43:27 -0800

I am trying to create a regular expression for matching a pattern with
a string enclosed in curly braces { } and not able to do that using
java.

For ex: if the String is
foo {bar} alpha {baz}:{bat} gamma

I need the strings:
{bar}
{baz}
{bat}

after the pattern matching

How do I do that ? Following is the code snippet and it is not
printing out anything. I think my regular expression pattern might be
wrong.

Can anyone help ?

protected static final String PARAMETER_REGEX =
"\\{\\[\\^\\{\\}\\]+\\}";

String originalString = "foo {bar} alpha {baz}:{bat} gamma";

Pattern p = Pattern.compile(PARAMETER_REGEX);
Matcher m = p.matcher(originalString);

while(m.find()) {
 System.out.println(matcher.group());
}

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