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_6

6. Expressions

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

What is an expression? An expression is operators and operands grouped together to perform some calculations and yield a result. There are different kinds of expressions. There are arithmetic expressions, as in x + y; comparison expressions, as in x > y; assignment expressions, as in x = y; and logical expressions, such as x && y.

An expression can consist of multiple subexpressions, as in z = x + y. Here, the x + y can be treated as an arithmetic subexpression inside the assignment expression.

The entire expression ...