How to use dollar sign in velocity

This Example shows you how to use dollar sign in velocity.
The method used in this example are described below:-
1:- Initialize velocity run time engine through method init().
2:- Create object of VelocityContext Class.
3:- Create Template class object, Template class object is used for controlling template methods and properties.

template.merge(context, writer): Merge method of the Template class is used here for merging the VelocityContext class object to produce the output.Template class object is used for controlling template methods and properties.

#set($sign ="+"): This is a statement named 'set', generally begins with # character. Here we have assign the sign with character $.

UseDollarSign.java:

import java.io.*;



import org.apache.velocity.*;

import org.apache.velocity.app.*;

import org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.RenderTool;



public class UseDollarSign {



  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

  Velocity.init();

  Template t = Velocity.getTemplate("./src/UseDollar.vm");



  VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();

  

  Writer writer = new StringWriter();

  t.merge(context, writer);



  System.out.println(writer);

  }

}

UseDollarSign.vm:

#set($sign ="+")



sign = '$sign'

Output:

sign = '+'

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