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Last modified: Monday, September 01, 1997
To give a value to a variable. In programming, you assign a value to a variable with a special symbol called an assignment operator. In many languages, the assignment operator is the equal sign (=). For example, the following C languagestatement assigns the value 5 to the variable x:
x = 5
Such a statement is called an assignment statement.
