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/= (division assignment)

division assignment, /=

Availability

Flash Player 4.

Usage

expression1 /= expression2

Parameters

expression1,expression2 A number or a variable that evaluates to a number.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Operator (arithmetic compound assignment); assigns expression1 the value of expression1 / expression2. For example, the following two statements are the same:

x /= y
x = x / y

Example

The following code illustrates using the /= operator with variables and numbers.

x = 10;
y = 2;
x /= y;
// x now contains the value 5