Left shift assignment (<<=)
The left shift assignment (<<=
) operator performs left shift on the two operands and assigns the result to the left operand.
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Syntax
x <<= y
Description
x <<= y
is equivalent to x = x << y
, except that the expression x
is only evaluated once.
Examples
Using left shift assignment
let a = 5;
// 00000000000000000000000000000101
a <<= 2; // 20
// 00000000000000000000000000010100
let b = 5n;
b <<= 2n; // 20n