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Pointless arithmetic expression

Reports an arithmetic expression that include adding or subtracting zero, multiplying by zero or one, division by one, and shift by zero. Such expressions may result from not fully completed automated refactoring.

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.

PointlessArithmeticExpressionJS
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 | Potentially confusing code constructs

Inspection ID: PointlessArithmeticExpressionJS

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:

//noinspection PointlessArithmeticExpressionJS

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025