Question about the $ sign in arrays and strings

[mipri]

On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 07:04:48 UTC, Namal wrote:
> Hello, I wanted to remove the lastchar in a string and figured 
> that you can do that wit
>
> str = str[0..$-2];
>
> but why is
>
> str = str[0..$] and str=str[0..$-1]
>
> the same ?

Why do you think that they are the same?

$ rdmd --eval 'auto str = "hello"; writeln(str = str[0..$]); 
writeln(str = str[0..$-1])'
hello
hell