Visual Basic - Assignment: =

The assignment operator is used to assign a value to a variable. it can be used for any data type with the only condition that the first parameter (left side) must be a value receiver, for example a variable. depending on the programming language can be different terms for the assignment of values to the variables, for example depending on the type.

=

Description

var =expression

Used keywords: =

Input

var - value receiver
expression - Expressions

Examples

Visual Basic .NET

Assignment the possible of use:

x = 1.234         ' x = 1.234
y = x * 3.14      ' y = 3.87476
if y<5 then
   y = y/ 3.14    ' y = 1.234
end if

Visual Basic .NET

Other pieces of example codes:

do
 i=i-1
 loop until ( i = 0)

b = 8 < x

y = x xor 25

y =CSng((x * y))

y = 5 and 3

y = &Ha or 5

Assignment in another programming language:

Differences to: