illegal string body character after dollar sign

Question

if i define a groovy variable

def x = \"anish$\"

it will throw me error, the fix is

def x = \"anish\\$\"

Answer 1

The solution from tim_yates does not work in some contexts, e.g. in a Jasper report. So if still everything with a $ sign wants to be interpreted as some variable (${varX}), e.g. in

"xyz".replaceAll("^(.{4}).{3}.+$", "$1...")

then simply make the dollar sign a single concatenated character '$', e.g.

"xyz".replaceAll("^(.{4}).{3}.+"+'$', '$'+"1...")