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# is to the left of $ and removes the prefix. % is to the right of $ and removes the suffix.


I, like the person you replied to, will surely remember it for good thanks to your reminder.


I mean, people learn silly things all the time; I think, often, learning the pattern behind something can make a thing much more transparent... I, too, struggled with this particular distinction until I realized that the choice of characters wasn't, in fact, arbitrary.




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