Symbols > = (assignment)

= (assignment)

assignment, =

Availability

Flash Player 4.

Flash 4 file:

x = y

Converted Flash 5 file:

Number(x) == Number(y)

Usage

expression1 = expression2

Parameters

expression1 A variable, element of an array, or property of an object.

expression2 A value of any type.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Operator; assigns the type of expression2 (the parameter on the right) to the variable, array element, or property in expression1.

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.

Example

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"

See also

== (equality)