Check string for two special characters back to back

Question

Hey all so I need to check if a string has 2 backslashes back to back ("\\"). So the string "\\computername\c$\file" would match but the string "C:\file\path" would not. I've tried contains, match, and like. I've tried the code
below which does work but gives me a false positive when I have a string like this "\computername\file\path".
$com = "\\computername\C$"
if($com -match "\\"){
Write-Host true
}else{
Write-Host false
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

In Regex ^ matches the starting position of a string. \ is a special character in Regex so you need to escape it with another \, so since you want double backslash \\, you need to escape twice \\\\, so ultimately ^\\\\ reads, at the start of the string
 find \\
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