Flash Player 4.
Flash 4 file:
x = y
Converted Flash 5 file:
Number(x) == Number(y)
expression1 = expression2
expression1
A variable, element of an array, or property of an object.
expression2
A value of any type.
Nothing.
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.
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
"