Regex to find items wrapped around with $()

Question

I am looking for a regex that would search a string for occurrences of substring with the pattern $(...). So basically anything wrapped around with $(). So the string

string str = "Hello $(item)"

would result true for that substring because it contains $(item) My question is how do I regex check for wrapped up items with $(xx) in C#?

You could use `Regex.Match(str,@"\$$.+$").Success` to check if string contains the required item — Anu Viswan, Feb 18 '20 at 09:46

Anu Viswan · Answer 1 · 2020-02-18T12:18:52.963

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You could use

var found = Regex.Match(str,@"\$\([\s\S]+\)").Success;

edited Feb 18 '20 at 12:18

answered Feb 18 '20 at 09:47

Anu Viswan

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No, do not use the greedy dot. It will match too much. – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 18 '20 at 10:20
@WiktorStribiżew Updated with `\s\S` – Anu Viswan Feb 18 '20 at 12:20
Still, that is a bad idea. Besides, see [this Meta post](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/285733/should-give-me-a-regex-that-does-x-questions-be-closed/285739#285739). – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 18 '20 at 12:23

Regex to find items wrapped around with $()

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