im trying to match a json block with a regex (embe...

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[william]

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

[william]

{ or } don't have special meaning in regular expressions so im not so sure what the meaning is

[Shawn]

Just remembered, they definitely do - a{4,6} for example matches a at least four and no more than six times

[Shawn]

you’ll probably want to just escape them

[william]

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

[william]

woah so in pure kotlin you only need to escape the first one

[william]

but in android it crashes unless you escape both

[Kroppeb]

well you need one to excape the { but because it's in a string literal I assume, you need to escape said \

[william]

yeah

[william]

im talking about the curly brackets though as in you need to escape both curly brackets only on android. in plain kotlin i can just escape the first one

[Kroppeb]

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

[william]

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