Expressions
Expressions are combinations of identifiers and operators. In most cases, they are the familiar formulas you learned about in high school algebra. They are executed from left to right; some operators are processed before others, and you can use parentheses to force an operation to occur before the rest of the expression. But since the expression may be a mix of different data types, you must be aware of how types are converted.
Listing 2.11. Using Assignment Operators
<?
// this assignment
$Count = $Count + 1;
// is the same as this assignment
$Count += 1;
?>
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Two general rules are at work when an expression is evaluated. First, some operators work only on certain data types. Second, if the operation is on a mix of an integer and ...
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