User Guide

% (modulo) 93
Description
Operator (logical); evaluates expression1 and expression2. The result is true if either or
both expressions evaluate to
true; the result is false only if both expressions evaluate to
false. You can use the logical OR operator with any number of operands; if any operand
evaluates to
true, the result is true.
With non-Boolean expressions, the logical OR operator causes Flash Lite to evaluate the
expression on the left; if it can be converted to
true, the result is true. Otherwise, it evaluates
the expression on the right, and the result is the value of that expression.
Example
Usage 1: The following example uses the || operator in an if statement. The second
expression evaluates to
true, so the final result is true:
theMinimum = 10;
theMaximum = 250;
start = false;
if (theMinimum > 25 || theMaximum > 200 || start){
trace("the logical OR test passed");
}
% (modulo)
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
expression1 % expression2
Operands
expression1, expression2 Numbers or expressions that evaluate to numbers.
Description
Operator (arithmetic); calculates the remainder of expression1 divided by expression2. If
an
expression operand is non-numeric, the modulo operator attempts to convert it to a
number. The expression can be a number or string that converts to a numeric value.
When targeting Flash Lite 1.0 or 1.1, the Flash compiler expands the
% operator in the
published SWF file by using the following formula:
expression1 - int(expression1/expression2) * expression2
The performance of this approximation might not be as fast or as accurate as versions of Flash
Player that natively support the modulo operator.