Netscript Operators

Operators

Binary Operators

Binary operators require two operands and produce a result based on their values. In general, binary operators do not change the value of the operands.

Operator	Name	Example/Comments
=	Assignment	i = 5 would assign the value 5 to the variable i
+	Addition	5 + 12 would return 17
-	Subtraction	20 - 8 would return 12
*	Multiplication	4 * 5 would return 20
/	Division	50 / 10 would return 5
%	Modulo	50 % 9 would return 5
&&	Logical AND	true && false would return false
||	Logical OR	true || false would return true
<	Less than	4 < 5 would return true
>	Greater than	4 > 5 would return false
<=	Less than or equal to	5 <= 5 would return true
>=	Greater than or equal to	5 >= 4 would return true
==	Equality	1 == 1 would return true
!=	Inequality	4 != 5 would return true
===	Strict equality	1 === "1" would return false
!==	Strict inequality	1 !== "1" would return true

Unary Operators

Unary operators require only a single operand and produce a result based on their values. Some unary operators will change the value of their operands. For example:

i = 0;
++i;

Running the pre-increment unary operator (++) in the code above changes the value of the variable i.

Operator	Name	Example/comments
!	Logical NOT operator	!true would return false, and !false would return true. Does not change operand's value
-	Negation	Negates a number. Only works for numerics. Does not change operand's value
++	Pre-increment	++i or i++. WARNING: This only pre-increments, even if you put i++. Changes operand's value
--	Pre-decrement	--i or i--. WARNING: This only pre-decrements, even if you put i--. Changes operand's value