User Guide

178 ActionScript language elements

The first trace returns 2, rather than 12/5 or 2.4, because the modulo (%) operator returns

only the remainder. The second trace returns 0.0999999999999996 instead of the expected

0.1 because of the limitations of floating-point accuracy in binary computing.

See also

/ division operator, round (Math.round method)

%= modulo assignment operator

expression1 %= expression2

Assigns expression1 the value of expression1 % expression2. The following two

statements are equivalent:

x %= y;

x = x % y;

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 4 - In Flash 4 files, the % operator is expanded in

the SWF file as

x - int(x/y) * y and may not be as fast or as accurate in later versions of

Flash Player.

Operands

expression1 : Number - A number or expression that evaluates to a number.

expression2 : Number - A number or expression that evaluates to a number.

Returns

Number - The result of the arithmetic operation.

Example

The following example assigns the value

4 to the variable x:

var x:Number = 14;

var y:Number = 5;

trace(x = y); // output: 4