Shoutbox

I normally am a person who uses regular expressions all over the place (it is my job after all) but in this case I would highly recommend not doing it as it is a much slower option.  Instead I would use the following

JScript code:

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function startsWithToken(orig)
{
    return (orig.charAt(0) == "$" && orig.charAt(1) == "$");
}
function endsWithToken(orig)
{
    var len = orig.length;
    return (orig.charAt(len-2) == "$" && orig.charAt(len-1) == "$");
}

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I am not sure if a single character string is equivalent to a character, that is why I didn't use "===".