$a >>= $b

Bitshift right assignment

Apply a binary "bitshift right" operation and assign the first variable to the result.

Tags
// Binary representation: 00010100
$a = 20; 

// Binary result: 00000101
$a >> 2; 

// $a is also updated to binary result 00000101
$a;

null coalescing

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