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Asked: 2026-06-12T19:02:37+00:00

I have some code that I am debugging that uses this operator and I’m

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I have some code that I am debugging that uses this operator and I’m not sure why it is used.

It appears to be appending the object to an array. If that was all I do not know why the engineer didn’t simply use the ‘<<‘ operator. What is the difference?

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_operators.htm

    it looks like its a bitwise left shift operation and assignment in one. 

    x <<= 2

    is the same as

    x = x << 2
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