What is this operator "=>"?

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What does “=>” mean in PHP?
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I see this symbol in a lot of PHP code.

I can't figure out what it means or what it does..

Is it really an operator ?

possible duplicate of [Reference - What does this symbol mean in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3737139/reference-what-does-this-symbol-mean-in-php) and more specifically for example [What does “=>” mean in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1241819/what-does-mean-in-php) — hakre, Oct 12 '12 at 17:06

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '11 at 21:58

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Do you mean =>? If so, it's for initializing array keys (or indexes if you prefer). Like this:

$values = array(
    'foo' => 'bar'
);

This will initiazlie an array with a key named foo with a value of bar.

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