*= (multiplication assignment)

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

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

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

Usage 2: 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