.NET and COM Interoperability Handbook, The

The Basic Operators in C#

The basic set of operators supported by the C# language is essentially the same as those supported by C and C++. You can group the available operators into the following categories: arithmetic, relational, logical assignment, and type operators. The conditional operator is in a category by itself.

Arithmetic Operators

Table 4-1 shows the list of available arithmetic operators.

Table 4-1. C# Arithmetic operators

Operator	Usage Example	Description
Unary Plus	res = +x;	Returns the value of x.
Unary Minus	res = -x	Returns zero minus x.
Addition	res = x + y	Adds x and y. Also used for string concatenation.
Subtraction	res=x - y	Subtracts y from x. When checked, will throw an OverflowException if the result is outside the range of the result ...