Assignment operators are used to assign a value to a variable.
What is an Assignment Operator?
An assignment operator is one or two symbols that are used to assign a value to a variable.
The most common assignment operators are
- = (Assign)
- += (Add and assign)
- -= (Subtract and assign)
- *= (Multiply and assign)
- /= (Divide and assign)
In the example below, we use the = operator to assign the value 10 to the variable x :
Runnable example
x = 10The most common assignment operator is the = operator.
Other assignment operators, like += , -= , *= , and /= , are just short ways of writing the assignment statements.
So for example, x += 10 is just a shorter way of writing x = x + 10 .