Remainder assignment (%=)

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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The remainder assignment (%=) operator performs remainder on the two operands and assigns the result to the left operand.

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Syntax

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x %= y

Description

x %= y is equivalent to x = x % y, except that the expression x is only evaluated once.

Examples

Using remainder assignment

js
let bar = 5;

bar %= 2; // 1
bar %= "foo"; // NaN
bar %= 0; // NaN

let foo = 3n;
foo %= 2n; // 1n

Specifications

Specification
ECMAScript Language Specification
# sec-assignment-operators

Browser compatibility

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