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Assignment Operator (=)

Visual Studio 2010

Assigns a value to a variable.

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result = expression

result

Any variable.

expression

Any expression.

The = operator returns the value of expression and assigns that value into variable. This means that you can chain assignment operators as follows:

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j = k = l = 0;

j, k, and l equal zero after the example statement is executed.

The data type of expression must be coercible to the data type of result.

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