Assignment operators

Assignment operators are used to give values to variables. The assignment operators that are available are as follows:

• Assign: =
• Add and assign: +=
• Subtract and assign: -=
• Multiply and assign: *=
• Divide and assign: /=
• Modulus and assign: %=

As with the arithmetic operators, add and assign may be used with strings, arrays, and hashtables. Multiply and assign may be used with strings and arrays.

Assign, add and assign, and subtract and assign

The assignment operator (=) is used to assign values to variables and properties, for example, let's look at assigning a value to a variable:

$variable = 'some value' 

Or, we might change the PowerShell window title by assigning a new value to its property...