Availability
Flash Player 4.

Usage

 expression1   *=   expression2 

Parameters
None.

Returns
Nothing.

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

 x *= y 
 x = x * y 

Example
The following example assigns the value 50 to the variable x .

 x = 5; 
 y = 10; 
 trace (x *= y); 
// returns 50

Example
The second and third lines of the following example calculate the expressions on the right-hand side of the equals sign and assign the results to x and y .

i = 5;
x = 4 - 6;
y = i + 2;
trace(x *= y);
// returns -14

See also
* (multiplication)