Assignment Statement Syntax

This program prints out the same thing as the first example program. However, this program did not initialize the variable and so had to put a value into it later.

Assignment statements look like this:

variableName  =  expression ;

• The equal sign = is the assignment operator.
• variableName is the name of a variable that has been declared previously in the program.
• expression is a collection of characters that calls for a value.

Here are some example assignment statements (assume that the variables have already been declared):

total = 3 + 5;

price = 34.56;

tax = total*0.05;

In the source file, the variable must be declared before any assignment statement that uses that variable.