What is the explanation for PHP’s operator % in full detail?
Including examples would be nice!
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It’s the modulus operator, which gives the integer remainder of a division
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Obvious real world example is working out whether a number is odd or even
if (($n % 2) == 0) the number is even, else it’s odd… useful when you want to show alternate rows in a table in different colours