Perl Graphics Programming

Operators and Control Structures

ActionScript basic operators and control structures are broken down into the following tables:

Table D-1

Table D-2

Table D-3

Table D-4

Table D-5

Table D-6

Table D-7

Table D-1. Arithmetic operations

Operator	Description
( )	Parentheses
*	Multiply
/	Divide
%	Modulo
+	Add
−	Subtract
−−	Decrement
++	Increment

Table D-2. Assignment operations

Operator	Description
=	Assignment
*=	Multiplication assignment
/=	Division assignment
%=	Modulo assignment
+=	Addition assignment
−=	Subtraction assignment
&=	Bitwise AND assignment
|=	Bitwise OR assignment
^=	Bitwise XOR assignment

Table D-3. Logical operations

Operator	Description
!	Logical NOT (you can also use the keyword not)
˜	Bitwise NOT
&	Bitwise AND
&&	Logical AND (you can also use the keyword and)
?:	Conditional
|	Bitwise OR
||	Logical OR (you can also use the keyword or)
^	Bitwise XOR

Table D-4. Comparison operations

Operator	Description
!=, <>	Inequality
= =	Equality
<	Less than
>	Greater than
<=	Less than or equal to
>=	Greater than or equal to
eq	String equal
ge	String greater than or equal to
gt	String greater than
le	String less than or equal to
lt	String less than
ne	String not equal

Table D-5. Bit operations

Operator	Description
<<	Bitwise left shift
<<=	Bitwise left shift and assignment
>>	Bitwise right shift
>>=	Bitwise right shift and assignment
>>>	Bitwise unsigned right shift
>>>=	Bitwise unsigned right shift and assignment

Table D-6. Other operators

Operator	Description
.	The dot operator, which allows you to call methods of an object or access its properties
[ ]	Array element access operator
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