Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

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S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0224-9_5

5. Operators

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

Operators are an essential part of the language. This chapter explains what they are and how they are used. It might seem that there is plenty of theory surrounding this subject but do not worry. We need to adopt the theoretical part to use it in practical code examples later in the book.

5.1 Introduction

What is the operator? An operator is a language entity that performs/applies an operation to its arguments and returns a result. One or more different symbols are used to represent operators. To better understand the ...