Thread: What is this operator?

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    What is this operator?

    Could someone please confirm what the following line does...

    n %= 5;

    (where n is an integer).

    Thanks.

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    Modulus Operator

    In your case n%=5 can be translated into

    n = n % 5 which in turn means: Return the remainder from dividing n by 5 and store the result to n. This has the same effect as keeping n in the range of 0 to 4.

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