Meaning of Right$(string, 3)

Question

I was reading through some source code and came across what looks like a call to a function:

Right$(string, 3)

I can understand this is just simple string manipulation, but what is the meaning of the $ symbol?

Answer 1

$ has no meaning in context of Right function. In ancient VB Right$ was a function in new VB it is Right but you can also use Right$ (for backward compatibility)

Right$("hasan", 3) and Right("hasan", 3) are same in VB.NET

It is merely a convention used to name String related functions.