Assignment can be replaced with increment or decrement
Reports the assignments that can be replaced with incrementing (++) or decrementing (--) operations.
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.
PhpAssignmentReplaceableWithPrefixExpressionInspection- 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.
Inspection ID: PhpAssignmentReplaceableWithPrefixExpressionInspection
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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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By default bundled with: | IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, PhpStorm 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3, Qodana for PHP 2025.3, |