Dollar sign

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$

In ASCII, the character code decimal 36 (or hexadecimal 24) is defined to be $ (dollar sign).

Pascal

As a PXSC extension, the symbol $, pronounced “dollar sign”, is used to indicate a hexadecimal base.

program dollarSignDemo(input, output, stderr);

var
	i: longint;

begin
	// '$' as well as '0x' are recognized by readLn
	// as hexadecimal base prefixes
	readStr('$24', i);
	writeLn(i);    // will print  36
	writeLn(-$24); // will print -36
end.

An optional sign is written in front the base indicator.

other appearances

For FPC and Delphi compilers, the dollar sign appears in compiler directives of the form {$directive}.


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single characters

+ (plus)  •  - (minus)  •  * (asterisk)  •  / (slash)
= (equal)  •  > (greater than)  •  < (less than)
. (period)  •  : (colon)  •  ; (semi colon)
^ (hat)  •  @ (at)
$ (dollar sign)  •  & (ampersand)  •  # (hash)
' (single quote)

character pairs

<> (not equal)  •  <= (less than or equal)  •  := (becomes)  •  >= (greater than or equal)

 •  >< (symmetric difference)  •  // (double slash)