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%= (modulo assignment) 35

%= (modulo assignment)

Availability

Flash Player 4.

Usage

expression1 %= expression2

Parameters

None.

Returns

A number.

Description

Operator (arithmetic compound assignment); assigns expression1 the value of expression1 %

expression2

. The following two expressions are equivalent:

x %= y

x = x % y

For more information, see “Operator precedence and associativity” in Using ActionScript in Flash.

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