im trying to match a json block with a regex (embedded in another document), and just the simple regular expression

Regex("{}")

shows up with the errors

Dangling metacharacter

on both the opening and closing bracket

Just remembered, they definitely do -

a{4,6}

for example matches

a

at least four and no more than six times

hm i guess in my case it doesnt have any meaning though, but yeah it seems like i had to do

\\{

only for the first curly bracket

well you need one to excape the

{

but because it's in a string literal I assume, you need to escape said

\

yeah

I guess the the kotlin one has better error recovery or something

the IDE tells me the second escape is unnecessary in both which is the odd part