In this tutorial, you shall learn about Division Assignment Operator, its syntax, and how to use this operator in programs, with examples.

PHP – Division Assignment Operator

Division assignment operator is used to decrease the value in a variable by given number of times.

The operator takes two operands, and assigns the division of first operand by the second operand to the first operand.

Syntax

The syntax of using Division Assignment Operator is

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operand1 /= operand2

The operation would be similar to the following statement.

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operand1 = operand1 / operand2

which translates to the meaning of decreasing the value of operand1 by operand2 times.

We can use variable for operand1; variable or value for operand2.

Example

In the following example, we use Division Assignment Operator to decrease the value in variable $x by 10 times.

PHP Program

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<?php
$x = 42;
$x /= 10;
print_r("After division assignment, x is {$x}.");
?>

Output

PHP - Division Assignment Operator

Conclusion

In this PHP Tutorial, we learned about Division Assignment Operator, and how to use it to decrease the value in a variable by given number of times.