User Guide

40 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

&= (bitwise AND assignment)

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

expression1 &= expression2

Parameters

None.

Returns

A 32-bit integer; the value of expression1 & expression2.

Description

Operator; assigns expression1 the value of expression1 & expression2. For example, 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 9 to x:

var x:Number = 15;

var y:Number = 9;

trace(x &= y); // output: 9