User Guide

Operators 139
Operands
expression1 : Number - An expression to be evaluated.
expression2 : Number - An expression to be evaluated.
expressionN : Number - Any number of additional expressions to be evaluated.
Returns
Object - The value of expression1, expression2, and so on.
Example
The following example uses the comma (,) operator in a for loop:
for (i = 0, j = 0; i < 3 && j < 3; i++, j+=2) {
trace("i = " + i + ", j = " + j);
}
// Output:
// i = 0, j = 0
// i = 1, j = 2
The following example uses the comma (,) operator without the parentheses () operator and
illustrates that the comma operator returns only the value of the first expression without the
parentheses () operator:
var v:Number = 0;
v = 4, 5, 6;
trace(v); // output: 4
The following example uses the comma (,) operator with the parentheses () operator and
illustrates that the comma operator returns the value of the last expression when used with the
parentheses () operator:
var v:Number = 0;
v = (4, 5, 6);
trace(v); // output: 6
The following example uses the comma (,) operator without the parentheses () operator and
illustrates that the comma operator sequentially evaluates all of the expressions but returns the
value of the first expression. The second expression,
z++, is evaluated and z is incremented by
one.
var v:Number = 0;
var z:Number = 0;
v = v + 4 , z++, v + 6;
trace(v); // output: 4
trace(z); // output: 1