regex expression for find words starts with two consecutive $ sign

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I am fetching words which starts with $ sign from a sentence. for this I have written as
Regex.Matches(body, "(\\$\\w+) ").

But my current requirement is to fetch words which starts with two consecutive $ sign.

for an example:
sentence:-my name is $$shibashish and age is $$twenty.

result should be : shibashish and twenty.

please help me it's urgent.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 19-Aug-14 20:41pm

shibashish mohanty

Updated 19-Aug-14 20:53pm

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Raul Iloc 20-Aug-14 7:44am

Did you try like I suggested in my solution (the 3rd solution)?

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Solution 1

Have you tried using this

C#

Regex.Matches(body, "(\\$$\\w+) ");

Posted 19-Aug-14 20:45pm

Mayank Vashishtha

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[no name] 20-Aug-14 2:49am

Thanks Mayank for replying but this is not the correct one.

Kumarbs 20-Aug-14 2:49am

It won't work buddy.

Solution 2

Regex.Matches(body, "(\\$\\$\\w+) ");

Posted 19-Aug-14 21:04pm

shibashish mohanty

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Raul Iloc 20-Aug-14 3:16am

Your regex expression is not quit right, because it matches also the words that contain the "$$" inside or at the end of the string like the next examples: "aaa$$bbb", "aaa$$"!

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Raul Iloc · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-19T21:13:00

Solution 3

The solution is:

C#

if(Regex.Matches(body, "^\\$\\$\\w+"))
{
    return body.Substring(2);
}

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Posted 19-Aug-14 21:13pm

Raul Iloc

Updated 19-Aug-14 21:14pm

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