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Assignment can be replaced with operator assignment

Reports assignment operations which can be replaced by operator-assignment.

Code using operator assignment is shorter and may be clearer.

Example:

x = x + 3; x = x / 3;

After the quick fix is applied:

x += 3; x /= 3;

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

AssignmentReplaceableWithOperatorAssignment
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Assignment issues

Use the Ignore conditional operators option to ignore && and ||. Replacing conditional operators with operator assignment would change the evaluation from lazy to eager, which may change the semantics of the expression.

Use the Ignore obscure operators option to ignore ^ and %, which are less known.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Assignment can be replaced with operator assignment inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore conditional operators

Default value:

Selected
Ignore the obscure ^ and % operators

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection AssignmentReplaceableWithOperatorAssignment

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025