Left and right associative operators

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In the book Real World OCaml, this section explains a few things about operators.

However, the following code is extremely confusing:

let (|>) x f = f x

and

let (^>) x f = f x

I do not see any difference between these two definitions. How can you tell that the first operator is left associative and the second operator is right associative?

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You want this part of the docs: Operators · OCaml Documentation

The first character of an operator dictates its associativity and priority…

There is a linked table showing them.

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There is a more succinct reference in the standard library OCaml library : Ocaml_operators