Assignment Statement Syntax

This program printed 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.

In the source file, the statement that declares a variable must occur before any assignment statement that uses that variable.