Assignment operators

You can use the assignment (=) operator to assign a value to a variable, as shown in the following example:

var password = "Sk8tEr";

You can also use the assignment operator to assign multiple variables in the same expression. In the following statement, the value of a is assigned to the variables b, c, and d:

a = b = c = d;

You can also use compound assignment operators to combine operations. Compound operators perform on both operands and then assign the new value to the first operand. For example, the following two statements are equivalent:

x += 15;
x = x + 15;

The assignment operator can also be used in the middle of an expression, as shown in the following example:

// If the flavor is not vanilla, output a message.
if ((flavor = getIceCreamFlavor()) != "vanilla") {
  trace ("Flavor was " + flavor + ", not vanilla.");
}

This code is equivalent to the following slightly more verbose code:

flavor = getIceCreamFlavor();
if (flavor != "vanilla") {
  trace ("Flavor was " + flavor + ", not vanilla.");
}

The following table lists the ActionScript assignment operators: