nested brackets with javascript

tested in .NET - works fine

balancing goup regex:

(\w+{)     # Find the first curly bracket, preceded
by resourceType
coded as \w+
  (                     # one of these three things:
    {(?<DEPTH>)        # another opening curly bracket
(and increment
DEPTH)
    |                   # or
    }(?<-DEPTH>)        # closing curly bracket (and
decrement DEPTH)
    |                   # or
    .*?                 # anything else (lazily)
   )*                   # and repeat.
   (?(DEPTH)(?!))       # Match if depth == 0, i.e., the
initial if is
balanced.
(})                  # Conclude with the final curly bracket
#END REGEX

from input:

resourceType{
field1 = aValue,
field2 = "value with quotation marks",
field3 = "value with quotation mark and  in
the field value",

field4 = ,
lastfield = "should not have a delimiting comma, but
some generators do

anyhow"
}

{some other HTML code}

resourceType{
field1 = aValue,
field2 = "value with quotation marks",
field3 = "value with quotation mark and
 in the field
value",
field4 = ,
lastfield = "should not have a delimiting comma, but
some generators do

anyhow"
}
}
{some other HTML code}


it matches both resource type as 2 matches. Try it in
Expresso.

code for C# regex object : Watch OPTIONS !!

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

Regex regex = new Regex(
    "(\w+{)     # Find the first curly bracket
  (             "
    + "        # one of these three things:
    {(?<DEPTH>)       "
    + " # another opening curly bracket (and
increment DEPTH)
    "
    + "|                   # or
    }(?<-DEPTH>)        # closing "
    + "curly bracket (and decrement DEPTH)
    |                  "
    + " # or
    .*?                 # anything else (lazily)
   "
    + ")*                   # and repeat.
   (?(DEPTH)(?!))       "
    + "# Match if depth == 0, i.e., the initial if is
balanced.
(}"
    + ")                  # Conclude with the final
curly bracket",
    RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
    | RegexOptions.Singleline
    | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace
    | RegexOptions.Compiled
    );


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