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*= (multiplication assignment)
Availability
Flash Player 4.
Usage
expression1
*=
expression2
Parameters
None.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Operator (arithmetic compound assignment); assigns expression1
the value of expression1
*
expression2
. For example, the following two expressions are the same:
x *= y
x = x * y
Example
The following example assigns the value 50 to the variable x
.
x = 5;
y = 10;
trace (x *= y);
// returns 50
Example
The second and third lines of the following example calculate the expressions on the right-hand side of the equals sign and assign the results to x
and y
.
i = 5; x = 4 - 6; y = i + 2; trace(x *= y); // returns -14
See also
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