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Assignment by Value Versus by Reference
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When the assignment operator works on primitive values (numbers, strings, Boolean, null, and undefined), a copy of the value is made.
When the assignment operator works on JavaScript objects, references to the objects are copied.
<html>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var number1 = 9;
var arrayOfNum1 = new Array(2,6);
var number2 = number1;
var arrayOfNum2 = arrayOfNum1;
number2 = 2;
arrayOfNum2[1] = 4;
document.write("number1=",number1,"<BR>");
document.write("number2=",number2,"<BR>");
document.write("arrayOfNum1[0]=",arrayOfNum1[0],"<BR>");
document.write("arrayOfNum1[1]=",arrayOfNum1[1],"<BR>");
document.write("arrayOfNum2[0]=",arrayOfNum2[0],"<BR>");
document.write("arrayOfNum2[1]=",arrayOfNum2[1],"<BR>");
-->
</SCRIPT>
</html>
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