Operators > = (assignment)
= (assignment)Syntax
expression1 = expression2
Arguments
expression1
A variable, element of an array, or property of an object.
expression2
A value of any type.
Description
Operator (assignment); assigns the type of expression2
(the argument on the right) to the variable, array element, or property in expression1
.
Player
Flash 4; Flash 5 or later. In Flash 5 =
is an assignment operator and the ==
operator is used to evaluate equality. In Flash 4 =
is a numeric equality operator. Flash 4 files brought into the Flash 5 authoring environment undergo a conversion process to maintain data type integrity. The first example below illustrates the conversion process.
Example
The following illustrates the conversion of a Flash 4 file containing a numeric quality comparison.
Flash 4 file:
x = y
Converted Flash 5 file:
Number(x) == Number(y)
The following example uses the assignment operator to assign the number data type to the variable x
:
x = 5
The following example uses the assignment operator to assign the string data type to the variable x
:
x =
"hello
"