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You use the basic assignment operator,=
, to assign one value to another. TheMaxVariablesDemo
program uses
=
to initialize all of its local variables:Java also provides several short cut assignment operators that allow you to perform an arithmetic, logical, or bitwise operation and an assignment operation all with one operator. Suppose you wanted to add a number to a variable and assign the result back into the variable, like this:// integers byte largestByte = Byte.MAX_VALUE; short largestShort = Short.MAX_VALUE; int largestInteger = Integer.MAX_VALUE; long largestLong = Long.MAX_VALUE; // real numbers float largestFloat = Float.MAX_VALUE; double largestDouble = Double.MAX_VALUE; // other primitive types char aChar = 'S'; boolean aBoolean = true;You can shorten this statement using the short cut operatori = i + 2;+=
.The two previous lines of code are equivalent.i += 2;This table lists the shortcut assignment operators and their lengthy equivalents:
Operator Use Equivalent to +=
op1 += op2
op1 = op1 + op2
-=
op1 -= op2
op1 = op1 - op2
*=
op1 *= op2
op1 = op1 * op2
/=
op1 /= op2
op1 = op1 / op2
%=
op1 %= op2
op1 = op1 % op2
&=
op1 &= op2
op1 = op1 & op2
|=
op1 |= op2
op1 = op1 | op2
^=
op1 ^= op2
op1 = op1 ^ op2
<<=
op1 <<= op2
op1 = op1 << op2
>>=
op1 >>= op2
op1 = op1 >> op2
>>>=
op1 >>>= op2
op1 = op1 >>> op2
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