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Understanding Operators

Operators assist you in manipulating data by assigning variable values, retrieving variable values, or comparing variable values. An operator falls into one of the following categories: arithmetic, assignment, bitwise, comparison, concatenation, or logical.

Each time you declare a variable, you're assigning the variable to a value, so you're using an assignment operator. When you compare the value of one variable to the value of another variable, you're using a comparison operator. When you add numbers together, you're using an arithmetic operator. You used operators often last week, and most operators are self-explanatory in what purpose they actually have. If you're coming from a Visual Basic 6 background, you'll be ...