End of line char ($) doesn't work inside square brackets

Question

Putting $ inside square brackets doesn\'t work for grep.

~ $ echo -e \"hello\\nthere\" > example.txt
~ $ grep \"hello$\" example.txt 
hello
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Answer 1

If you're trying to match end of line characters or the end of the string, you can use (|) like so "ABC($|\n)".