How to check if a string includes $sometext$ without numbers in TypeScript

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function includeDollarSymbolText(text: string): boolean {
    text = text.replace(/\$[a-z]+\$/gi, "");
 
    if (text.search(/\$/) != -1) {
        return false;
    }
     
    return true;
}
 
 
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc xy $text$ z")); // ok
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc xy $ text$ z")); // space
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc xy $$ z")); // empty
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc 100 $text$ z")); // ok
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc $1000 $text$ z")); // open $
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc xy $IBM$ z $Microsoft$")); // ok
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc xy $F3$ z")); // include number
console.log(includeDollarSymbolText("abc xy $text z")); // missing close $


 
/*
run:
 
true
false
false
true
false
true
false
false
 
*/

 



answered Jul 11, 2025 by avibootz
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