User Guide

56 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

/= (division assignment)

Availability

Flash Player 4.

Usage

expression1 /= expression2

Parameters

expression1,expression2

A number or a variable that evaluates to a number.

Returns

A number.

Description

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

expression2. For example, the following two statements are equivalent:

x /= y

x = x / y

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

Example

The following code illustrates using the division assignment (/=) operator with variables and

numbers:

var x:Number = 10;

var y:Number = 2;

x /= y;

trace(x); // output: 5