# Variable help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-help/213291>\
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**Created:** [January 18, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-help/213291 "2007-01-18T12:41:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![romfus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@romfus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/romfus)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-help/213291/1 "2007-01-18T12:41:05Z")

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Whenever I make a command like:

\_root.value1 = \_root.value2 -= 5

It always makes my Value2 variable subtracted by 5. how do I make it so that value1 will always be value2 subtracted by 5, but value 2 will still have it’s original value?