This is my test-string: <img rel="{objectid:498,newobject:1,fileid:338}" width="80" height="60" align="left" src="../../../../files/jpg1/Desert1.jpg" alt="" /> I want to get each of the JSON formed Elements inbetween the rel attribute. It's working for the first element (objectid). Here is my ReqEx, which works fine: (?<=(rel="\{objectid:))\d+(?=[,|\}]) But i want to do somthing like this, which doesn't work: (?<=(rel="\{.*objectid:))\d+(?=[,|\}]) So i can parse every element of the search string. I'm using Java-ReqEx