Wednesday 2 March 2016

Operator in C - Material CPU



Explain different operators of C language with example.
Answer:

Operator: It is a symbol which is used to tell the compiler which mathematical or logical operations are to be applied on operands (data).
C language has following 8 different types of operators.

1)    Arithmetic operators
2)    Relational operators
3)    Logical operators
4)    Assignment operators
5)    Increment or decrement operators
6)    Bit wise operators
7)    Ternary (Conditional) operators
8)    Other operators

Arithmetic operators:
It is used to perform arithmetic operation like addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and modules.


Operator Name
Meaning
+
Addition
-
Subtraction
/
Division
*
Multiplication
%
Modulus

 
            Example:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
int a,b,c;
a=10,b=20;
clrscr();
c=a+b;
printf(“%d”,c);
getch();
}
Relational Operator:
These operators are used to find the relationship between two operands.
The answers of these operators are always either true or false.
Consider a = 10 and b = 5 for following table.

Operator

Meaning
Answer
a==b
Check the value of a and b are same or not
False
a>b
Check the value of a is greater than the value of b
True
a<b
Check the value of a is less than the value of b
False
a>=b
Check the value of a is greater than or equals to the value of b
True
a<=b
Check the value of a is less than or equals to the value of b
False
a!=b
Check the value of a is not equal to the value of b
True

Logical Operators:
Logical operators are used to combine the more than one condition.
C language has 3 different types of logical operators.
The output of logical operators is always either true or false.
Consider a = 10, b = 5 and c = 3 for following table.

Operator
Example
Output
&& - Logical and
(a > b) && (a>c)
True
|| - Logical or
(b > a) || (a>b)
True
! – Logical not
!(a>b)
False


Assignment Operators:
Assignment operator is used to assign the value to variable.
To assign the value to variable following syntax is used.

Syntax:
            <Variable name> = <expression>;

Expression can be any constant, variable name or any valid expression.

Example:      a = 10;
C language also support shorthand operator.
Shorthand operator can be used with statement having following form:

            <Variable name> = <variable name> <operator> <expression>;

Here both variable names must be same.
This form is converted into following form using shorthand operator.

            <Variable name> <operator> = <expression>;

Assignment operator
Shorthand
a = a + 5;
a+=5;
a = a – 5;
a-=5;
a = a * 10;
a*=10;
a = a / 20;
a/=20;


Increment or Decrement operator:
It is unary operator that means it requires only one operator.
Operator can be written either after or before the operand.


Operator
Meaning
++
Increment operator
--
Decrement operator

Increment operator is used to increase the value of variable by one and decrement operators is used to decrease the value of variable bye one only.
If increment operator is placed after variable then it is known as post increment and if increment operator is placed before variable then it is known as pre increment.

            Example:
                        #include<stdio.h>
                        #include<conio.h>
                        void main()
                     {
                                    int a1,b1;
                                    a1=10;
                                    b1=a1++; // post increment
                                    printf(“%d”,b1);
                                    printf(“%d”,a1);
                                    getch();
                        }                      

Bitwise operator:
C language also supports some operators which can perform operation on bit level. So using this operator we can perform operation on 0’s and 1’s bit.
Consider a = 10 (1010) and b = 5 (0101).

Operator
Example
Output
& - Bitwise AND
c = a & b
0
| - Bitwise OR
c = a | b
15
^ - Bitwise Exclusive OR (XOR)
c = a ^ b
15
<< - Left Shift
c = a << 1
20
>> - Right Shift
c = a >> 1
5
~ - Bitwise 1’s complement
c = ~a
-11

For Bitwise and (&) operator if both bits are 1 then only answer is 1.
For Bitwise or(|) operator if one the bit is 1 then answer is 1 and if both bits are 0 then only answer is 0.
For Bitwise exclusive or (XOR) operator if both bits are different then only answer is 1 other wise answer is 0.
In left shift operator if we shift one bit to left then result will be in multiplication of 2, if we shift 2 bits in left side then result will be in multiplication of 4 and so on.

For Example:
a=10; if we write a<<1 then answer is 20 as below.

           
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0


0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0



           
Example:
                        #include<stdio.h>
                        #include<conio.h>
                        void main()
                        {
                                    int a1,b1;
                                    a1=10;
                                    b1=a1<<1;
                                    printf(“%d”,b1);
                                    b1=a1>>1;
                                    printf(“%d”,b1);
                                    getch();
                        }          

Conditional operator:
It is also known as ternary operator.
It works like if else statement.



Syntax:
<Condition> ? <Statement 1> : <statement 2>;

 
 





If condition becomes true then statement 1 will be executed.
If condition becomes false then statement 2 will be executed
           
Example:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
int max,a,b;
clrscr();
a=10, b=20;
max = (a>b)? a : b;
printf(“maximum value is %d”,max);
getch();
}

Other operators:
In that some special operators like comma operator, dot (.) operator, arrow (->) operator and sizeof operator are used.
Comma operator is used to declare multiple variable, expression and also used in printf() or scanf() function.
Dot (.) operator is used to access the member of structure using structure variable.
Arrow (->) operator is used to access the member of structure using pointer variable.
Sizeof() operator is used to find the no of bytes occupied by specified data type or variable.

Example:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
int a;
clrscr();
printf(“%d”,sizeof(a)); // size of integer is 2 bytes so output is 2
getch();
}

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