Regex matching at end of string - dollar($) anchor

The dollar($) is used to match pattern expectations at the end of a string.

For instance the regex ant$ expects the last characters in our string to be ‘ant’.

Example  -Lets apply the above regex(ant$) to below inputs and see the outputs

Sample program that does above matches

package devsought;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

 

public class Regex7 {

 

    public static void main(String... args) {

        String str = "1abcc";

        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("ant$");

        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(str);

        boolean matchFound = false;

        while (matcher.find()) {

            System.out.println("YES::" + matcher.group());

            matchFound = true;

        }

        if (!matchFound) {

            System.out.println("NO");

        }

    }

}

The abouve code outputs NO .