Rexx Programming/How to Rexx/arithmetic
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The rexx scripting language provides a set of arithmetic operators for manipulating integer and floating point numbers.
Operator Description + addition - subtraction * multiplication / division % integerdivision // modulus ** exponent
say 6 + 3 /* addition */ say 8 - 3 /* subtraction */ say 6 * 3 /* multiplication */ say 11 / 4 /* division */ say 11 % 4 /* integer division */ say 11 // 4 /* modulus */ say 5 ** 3 /* exponent */
Arithmetic operators may behave differently than they do in other programming languages[edit | edit source]
Note that rexx uses unconventional arithmetic operators, which may have a different meaning to conventional operators used in other programming languages. For example the percent sign is used for integer division in rexx, whereas it is used as a modulus operator in perl.
Arithmetic operations should only be applied to valid numeric values[edit | edit source]
The rexx scripting language uses typeless variables that are treated as strings. Arithmetic operators should only be used on strings containing numeric values, otherwise an error may occur.