I’ve seen the @ symbol used in PowerShell to initialise arrays.
What exactly does the @ symbol denote and where can I read more about it?
I’ve seen the @ symbol used in PowerShell to initialise arrays. What exactly does
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I’ve seen the @ symbol used in PowerShell to initialise arrays.
What exactly does the @ symbol denote and where can I read more about it?
PowerShell will actually treat any comma-separated list as an array:
So the @ is optional in those cases. However, for associative arrays, the @ is required:
Officially, @ is the ‘array operator.’ You can read more about it in the documentation that installed along with PowerShell, or in a book like ‘Windows PowerShell: TFM,’ which I co-authored.