var Statement

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Description

Declares a variable.

Syntax

var variable [ = value ] [, variable2 [ = value2], ...]

The var statement syntax has the following parts:

Part	Description
variable, variable2	The names of the variables being declared.
value, value2	The initial value assigned to the variable.

Remarks

Use the var statement to declare variables. These variables can be assigned values at declaration or later in your script. Examples of declaration follow:

var index;
var name = "Thomas Jefferson";
var answer = 42, counter, numpages = 10;