Regular expression for finding currency values but not dates in text

Question

I have text like the following two example strings

this book was sold for 12.00 on 12.12.2010
he paid 12.12.2010 , and puchased an amount of 15.00

Answer 1

You could use

\d+\.\d{2}(?![.\d])

if all you need is to distinguish between dates in exactly this format and currency amounts in exactly this format.

This regex looks for the pattern digits, dot, two-digits but only if it's not followed by either another dot or another digit (to prevent the dates from matching).

Quick PowerShell test:

Update for short dates in the form dd.mm.yy (just in case you need them):

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