The “–>” operator in C++ is called the “member access through pointer” operator. It is used to access a member of an object that is pointed to by a pointer.

The “->” operator is used when we have a pointer to an object and we want to access a member of that object. It is a shorthand for dereferencing the pointer and then accessing the member using the dot operator.

For example, consider a pointer ptr to an object of a class MyClass, and suppose that MyClass has a member variable x. To access the value of x using the pointer, we can use the “->” operator as follows:

ptr->x

This is equivalent to the following code using the dereference operator (*) and the dot operator (.):

(*ptr).x

The "->" operator is a concise way to access members of an object that is pointed to by a pointer, and it is commonly used in C++ programming.