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Assignment Operators in JavaScript

An assignment operator requires two operands. The value of the right operand is assigned to the left operand. The sign = denotes the simple assignment operator. JavaScript also has several compound assignment operators, which is actually shorthand for other operators. A list of all such operators are listed below.

List of Assignment operators

Name Syntax Meaning
Assignment x = y x = y
Addition assignment x += y x =x+ y
Subtraction assignment x -= y x = x - y
Multiplication assignment x *= y x = x * y
Division assignment x /= y x = x / y
Remainder assignment x %= y x = x % y
Exponentiation assignment x **= y x = x ** y
Left shift assignment x <<= y x = x << y
Right shift assignment x >>= y x = x >> y
Unsigned right shift assignment x >>>= y x = x >>> y
Bitwise AND assignment x &= y x = x & y
Bitwise XOR assignment x ^= y x = x ^ y
Bitwise OR assignment x |= y x = x | y
Logical AND assignment x &&= y x && (x = y)
Logical OR assignment x ||= y x || (x = y)
Logical nullish assignment x ??= y x ?? (x = y)

Simple Assignement Operator

An = assignment operator assigns the value of the right-hand operand to the left-hand variable.

                            
var x = 25;
 
var y = 25*100;
 
var z = x+y; 
                     
                            
                        

Compound Assignment Operators

All operators except = listed in the table above are compound assignment operators. They are actually shorthand notations

For Examples

The Addition assignment += operator adds a value to a variable.

                            
var x = 25;
x  +=25;   //50; 
 
 
                     
                            
                        

is actually shorthand for

                            
var x= 25;
x = x + 25;    //50
 
                     
                            
                        
                            
9 & 7   =  1
 
00000000000000000000000000001001   =9
00000000000000000000000000000111   =7
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00000000000000000000000000000001   =1
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