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Unused assignment

Reports a variable whose value is never used after assignment.

Suggests removing the unused variable to shorten the code and to avoid redundant allocations.

The following cases are reported:

  • A variable is never read after assignment.

  • The value of a variable is always overwritten with another assignment before the variable is read next time.

  • The initializer of a variable is redundant (for one of the above-mentioned reasons).

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.

JSUnusedAssignment
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 | JavaScript and TypeScript | Unused symbols

Availability

By default bundled with

CLion 2024.1, GoLand 2024.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, JetBrains Rider 2023.3, PhpStorm 2024.1, PyCharm 2024.1, Qodana for .NET 2023.3, Qodana for Go 2024.1, Qodana for JS 2024.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.1, Qodana for PHP 2024.1, Qodana for Ruby 2024.1, RubyMine 2024.1, WebStorm 2024.1

Can be installed with plugin

JavaScript and TypeScript, 241.18072

Last modified: 18 June 2024