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> The basic assignment operator is "=". Your first inclination might
be to think of this as "equal to". Don't. It really means that the
the left operand gets set to the value of the expression on the
rights (that is, "gets set to").
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> The value of an assignment expression is the value assigned. That
is, the value of "$a = 3" is 3. This allows you to do some tricky
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$a = ($b = 4) + 5; // $a is equal to 9 now, and $b has been set to 4.
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> In addition to the basic assignment operator, there are "combined
operators" for all of the binary arithmetic and string operators
that allow you to use a value in an expression and then set its
value to the result of that expression. For example:
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> $a = 3;
$a += 5; // sets $a to 8, as if we had said: $a = $a + 5;
$b = "Hello ";
$b .= "There!"; // sets $b to "Hello There!", just like $b = $b . "There!";
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> Note that the assignment copies the original variable to the new
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