what's ^ before the nodePath mean?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By jia

get_node(^“/root/TouchHelper”)

^ means /for what?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Enfyna

It basically tells the engine that this string is a NodePath. If you dont put it yourself then the engine will check if the string is a NodePath then convert the string to NodePath itself. I guess it can give you a very small performance boost if you put it.

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: zhyrin

^"text" is a NodePath literal, "text" is a string literal.
get_node() expects a nodepath as a parameter, if you pass a string, it’ll be implicitly converted, but if you pass a nodepath literal, you are explicitly stating the type of parameter the function expects.