Question

I want to create a regular expression that matches input text that starts with a given word and this word may be followed by 0 or more characters(any type of character).

For example if the word is

$$(hello)$$

Will the following regular expression match the above stated requirements:

^\$\$\(hello\)\$\$.*

Answer 1

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You can test out what will and won’t work. Great for testing out regex quickly. What you wrote will work with your example, but I would run it through some more tests to be sure.