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% (modulo)
Availability
Flash Player 4. In Flash 4 files, the %
operator is expanded in the SWF file as x - int(x/y) * y
, and may not be as fast or as accurate in later versions of the Flash Player.
Usage
expression1
%
expression2
Parameters
None.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Operator (arithmetic); calculates the remainder of expression1
divided by expression2
. If either of the expression
parameters are non-numeric, the modulo operator attempts to convert them to numbers. The expression
can be a number or string that converts to a numeric value.
Example
The following is a numeric example that uses the modulo (%)
operator.
trace (12 % 5);
// returns2
trace (4.3 % 2.1
);
// returns approximately 0.1
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