what is the meaning of the dollar sign after a method name in vb.net

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user288916 picture user288916 · Dec 1, 2011 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

what is the meaning of the dollar sign after a method name in vb.net

like this:

Replace$("EG000000", "0", "")

Answer

Leon picture Leon · Dec 1, 2011

Old type notifier - see this

Some other old ones:

& -> Long
% -> Integer
# -> Double
! -> Single
@ -> Decimal
$ -> String

Still exist in VB.Net for the sake of backward compatibility...

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