Odds are when this function called gets a string from the user by expecting them to manipulate their keyboard - with their fingers, I need to-- initiatively I'm gonna get back a sentence or a word or a phrase or something.

调用GetString获取的信息也有可能,是通过键盘敲进来的,东西-,它将会返回句子啊，单词啊,或词组啊等等一些信息。

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Well, it's a prefix most of the symbols in this function with just an asterisk, with a * from the keyboard so Shift-8.

好的，在这个函数中它是一个前缀符号,就是一个星号，在键盘中用Shift-8输入。

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