What's the difference between Trim() and Trim$() in VBA?

Question

What is the difference between trim and trim$ in vba? Accidentally today when I used left and trim functions in vba, The compiler said cant f

Answer 1

I believe the notation is a legacy of VB days, where $ was used to denote objects/functions that were (or operated on) strings.

Functionally, there's no difference although I understand that the $ version is alleged to be faster, as it eliminates the need to convert from a variant to a string.