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Operators Precedence in C

The document discusses operator precedence in C, explaining that certain operators like multiplication have higher precedence than others like addition. It provides a table of operator precedence categories and examples to demonstrate how precedence works in expressions.

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Operators Precedence in C

The document discusses operator precedence in C, explaining that certain operators like multiplication have higher precedence than others like addition. It provides a table of operator precedence categories and examples to demonstrate how precedence works in expressions.

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Operatorprecedencedeterminesthegroupingoftermsinanexpressionanddecideshowanexpressionisevaluated.Certainoperators
havehigherprecedencethanothersforexample,themultiplicationoperatorhasahigherprecedencethantheadditionoperator.
Forexample,x=7+3*2here,xisassigned13,not20becauseoperator*hasahigherprecedencethan+,soitfirstgetsmultiplied
with3*2andthenaddsinto7.
Here, operators with the highest precedence appear at the top of the table, those with the lowest appear at the bottom. Within an
expression,higherprecedenceoperatorswillbeevaluatedfirst.
Category

Operator

Associativity

Postfix

()[]>.++

Lefttoright

Unary

+!~++(type)*&sizeof

Righttoleft

Multiplicative

*/%

Lefttoright

Additive

Lefttoright

Shift

<<>>

Lefttoright

Relational

<<=>>=

Lefttoright

Equality

==!=

Lefttoright

BitwiseAND

&

Lefttoright

BitwiseXOR

Lefttoright

BitwiseOR

Lefttoright

LogicalAND

&&

Lefttoright

LogicalOR

||

Lefttoright

Conditional

?:

Righttoleft

Assignment

=+==*=/=%=>>=<<=&=^=|=

Righttoleft

Comma

Lefttoright

Example
TrythefollowingexampletounderstandoperatorprecedenceinC
#include<stdio.h>
main(){
inta=20;
intb=10;
intc=15;
intd=5;
inte;

e=(a+b)*c/d;//(30*15)/5
printf("Valueof(a+b)*c/dis:%d\n",e);
e=((a+b)*c)/d;//(30*15)/5
printf("Valueof((a+b)*c)/dis:%d\n",e);
e=(a+b)*(c/d);//(30)*(15/5)
printf("Valueof(a+b)*(c/d)is:%d\n",e);
e=a+(b*c)/d;//20+(150/5)
printf("Valueofa+(b*c)/dis:%d\n",e);

return0;
}

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Whenyoucompileandexecutetheaboveprogram,itproducesthefollowingresult
Valueof(a+b)*c/dis:90
Valueof((a+b)*c)/dis:90
Valueof(a+b)*(c/d)is:90
Valueofa+(b*c)/dis:50

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