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Thanks. &nbsp;I don't know what you mean by &quot;what style of regular expressions&quot; that I am using. But I am coding in VB.net.<br />
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I took your solution and it worked so I applied it to &quot;+(some text)+&quot; and &quot;+[some text]+&quot; as well. &nbsp;I then tried to combine the three to cut down on code:<br />
&quot;(?&lt;=\+)\{([^}+]*)\}|\[([^<wbr />]+]*)\]|$<wbr />([^)+]*)$<wbr />(?=\+)&quot;<br />
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That didn't work. &nbsp;Any suggestions or should I post this to a new question?
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Thanks.  I don't know what you mean by "what style of regular expressions" that I am using. But I am coding in VB.net.

I took your solution and it worked so I applied it to "+(some text)+" and "+[some text]+" as well.  I then tried to combine the three to cut down on code:
"(?<=\+)\{([^}+]*)\}|\[([^]+]*)\]|$([^)+]*)$(?=\+)"

That didn't work.  Any suggestions or should I post this to a new question?

(?<=\+)(?=(?:\{[^}+]*\}|\[[^]+]*\]|$[^)+]*$)\+).([^+]*)[]})](?=\+)

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If you were to add some () brackets around the \+ characters in the pattern (ie &quot;(\+)\{([^}+]*)\}(\+)&quot;) then you would capture them and use $1$2$3 as the replacement, but I don't think it's possible to just use $1.
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If you were to add some () brackets around the \+ characters in the pattern (ie "(\+)\{([^}+]*)\}(\+)") then you would capture them and use $1$2$3 as the replacement, but I don't think it's possible to just use $1.

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I am using the following pattern &quot;\+\{([^}+]*)\}\+&quot; to find &quot;+{some text}+ and replace it with &quot;+some text+&quot;. &nbsp;To do this I am using &quot;+$1+&quot; as the replacement string. &nbsp;This works perfectly. &nbsp;<br />
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What I would like to know is if it is possible to change the pattern so that I could just use &quot;$1&quot; instead of &quot;+$1+&quot;?. &nbsp;If so what would the pattern be?
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I am using the following pattern "\+\{([^}+]*)\}\+" to find "+{some text}+ and replace it with "+some text+".  To do this I am using "+$1+" as the replacement string.  This works perfectly.  

What I would like to know is if it is possible to change the pattern so that I could just use "$1" instead of "+$1+"?.  If so what would the pattern be?

Is it possible to make this work?

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.