User Guide

100 Chapter 5: ActionScript Core Language Elements

The following example shows a conditional statement written in shorthand:

var timecode:String = (new Date().getHours()<11) ? "AM" : "PM";

trace(timecode);

The same conditional statement could also be written in longhand, as shown in the following

example:

if (new Date().getHours()<11) {

var timecode:String = "AM";

} else {

var timecode:String = "PM";

}

trace(timecode);

/ (division)

Availability

Flash Player 4.

Usage

expression1 / expression2

Parameters

expression

A number or a variable that evaluates to a number.

Returns

A floating-point number.

Description

Operator (arithmetic); divides expression1 by expression2. The result of the division

operation is a double-precision floating-point number.

For more information, see “Operator precedence and associativity” on page 32.

Example

The following statement divides the current width and height of the Stage and then writes the

result to the log file.

trace(Stage.width/2);

trace(Stage.height/2);

For a Stage width and height of 550 x 400, the output is 275 and 150.