Augmented Assignment Operators

The operators +, -, **, */, and % can be combined with the assignment operator to form augmented operators. Very often the current value of a variable is used, modified, and then reassigned back to the same variable. For example, the following statement increases the variable count by 1:

count = count + 1;

Java allows you to combine assignment and addition operators using an augmented (or compound) assignment operator. For example, the preceding …

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