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_7

7. Statements

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

This chapter explains statements in general – expressions ending with a semicolon (;) and statements built into the language itself.

7.1 Introduction

What is a statement? A statement is an expression ending with a semicolon symbol (;). For example, x + y is an expression, but x + y; is a statement. Let us list a few simple statements we have used so far:

• int x; – A statement containing a declaration

• int x = 123; – A statement containing an initialization

• x = 123; – A simple assignment statement

• z = x + y; – A statement with ...