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% (modulo)

modulo, %, division, remainder

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);
// returns 2

trace (4.3 % 2.1);

// returns approximately 0.1