Operators and Expressions - Java: The Fast Way - page 9

Assignment Operator

Assignment operators come in existence when there is a need of assigning value of a spe-
cified expression to a given variable.

Instead of assignment operator, java also provides shorthand assignment operators with the
following syntax:

Variable operator = expression;

The above expression is equivalent to variable=variable operator (expression)

Shorthand Assignment Operator

Statement with simple assignment operator Corresponding statements with shorthand

operator

P=p+1 P+=1

P=p-1 p-=1

P=p*(n+1) P*=n+1

P=p/(n+1) p/=n+1

P=p%q P%=q

public class Demo1

{

public static void main(String args[])

{

int value = 10;

System. out .println( "value is " +value);

// Shorthand assignment operators

int a1 = 4;

int a2 = 8;