assignment

Summary

The assignment operator takes the value of the right operand and assigns it to the left operand.

Syntax

result = expression;

result

Any variable.

expression

Any expression that returns a value.

Examples

var x;
x = 5;

Remarks

The = operator behaves like other operators, so expressions that contain it have a value. This means that you can chain assignment operators as follows: j = k = l = 0. In this case j , k , and l equal zero.

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: Article