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COM1100
Winter2000 Yuhong Yin Northeastern University
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Assignment statement
nSyntax: variable = expression;
nEvaluate the
RHS
nPut into
LHS
nAssignment
statement tells the computer to assign (store) a value into a variable.
nAssignment
always have an equal ( = ) sign and one variable name immediately to the left of
this sign. The value on the right of the equal sign is determined
first and this value is assigned to the variable on the left of the equal sign.