Overview

Assignment Operators are of two types. Simple assignment operator, and Compound assignment operator.

The simple assignment operator assigns the value of the right operand to the variable (or the field) specified in the left operand.

The following is a simple assignment operator:

Example:

1. x = 2;                      // assigns the value 2 to x

Compound assignment operators consist of a binary operator and the simple assignment operator. They perform the operation of the binary operator on both operands and store the result of that operation into the left operand.

The following are compound assignment operators:

Example:

1. x += 1;                   // is the same as: x = x + 1;

Example:

1. x -= 1;                    // is the same as: x = x - 1;

Example:

1. x *= 1;                    // is the same as: x = x * 1;

Example:

1. x /= 1;                   // is the same as: x = x / 1;

Example:

1. x %= 1;                 // is the same as: x = x % 1;

Data types applicable to Assignment Operators

• The "=" operator supports all datatypes.
• The "+=" operator supports string, bigint and decimal data types.
• The rest of the assignment operators support bigint and decimal datatypes.