$ is a masking or wildcard character indictating that ANY character in that position is acceptable.
The $* combination allows any sequence of zero or more charcaters.
Your example looks for values of car with a length of four characters.
See C 4 in Creating Reports with WebFOCUS Lnaguage.
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