How to convert Java assignment expression to Kotlin

Question

Something in java like

int a = 1, b = 2, c = 1;
if ((a = b) !=c){
    System.out.print(true);
}

now it should be converted to kotlin like<

Answer 1

As pretty much everyone here has pointed out, assignments are not expressions in Kotlin. However, we can coerce the assignment into an expression using a function literal:

val reader = Files.newBufferedReader(path)
var line: String? = null
while ({ line = reader.readLine(); line }() != null) {
    println(line);
}