*= (multiplication assignment)

Availability

Flash Lite 1.0.

Usage

expression1 *= expression2

Operands

expression1, expression2 Numbers or expressions that evaluate to numbers.

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

Usage 1: The following example assigns the value 50 to the variable x:

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

Usage 2: The second and third lines of the following example calculate the expressions on the right side of the equals sign (=) and assign the results to x and y:

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

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