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Precedence talks about the Got

priority GET CONNECTED
it! among the different operators, which to
consider first. Like arithmetic operators have higher priority than assignment
operators and so on. When we have more than one operators in a single

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statement then this precedence comes into the picture as the result may vary
greatly.
For eg – 2 + 3 * 4 – 1 == 2+ (3 * 4) – 1 = 16  => This happens because  
precedence of multiplication operator is higher than the other two. 101 107 FANS

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Associativity comes into picture when we have operators of the same SUBSCRIBERS
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precedence. It doesn’t talk about which to pick first rather says the order of
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Down the rows in the table shows the priorities decreasing. tutorials Uncategorized
Under each row, all the operators have the same priority, there comes the
associativity.
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It can be clearly seen, Unary, Ternary and Assignment Operators are evaluated
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right to left.

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“ X == 5 || X == 10 || X == 20”As relational operator has Left to Right Lyricsys
associativity, therefore. The statement will be executed as (take note of the
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will be executed as (take note of the added brackets) algorithms (14)
“ (X == 5 || X == 10) || X == 20”.
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2) ASSIGNMENT OPERATOR Cloud (1)

Data Structure (26)
01. #include <stdio.h>
How To (9)
02.

03. int main(void){ Java (48)

04. io (11)
05. int x = 5, y = 5; java8 (4)
06. x == y ? x = 10 : (y = 10);
Strings (8)
07.

08. /* x == y ? x = 10 : y = 10; news (6)

09. * if we write above expression without parenthesis, OOPS (3)
there will be compiler error.
Practice (2)
10. * As y = 10 is the assignment operator that goes right
Interview Questions (2)
to left.
11. * 10 is assigned to y. Without parenthesis it says 10 is Puzzles (15)
assigned to "x==y?x=10:". Sql (8)
12. * Hence the compilation error will be Lvalue required
tutorials (49)
13. */
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14.

15. printf("x = %d y = %d", x, y); C++ (1)

16. return 0;
Javascript (2)
17. }
NodeJS (1)
Python (5)
Uncategorized (1)
Output:-

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x = 10 y = 5

3) COMMA OPERATOR
Comma(,) is worked as both operator and separator and has least priority.

Comma as an operator acts like a sequence point. When evaluating an

expression with more than one operand separated by a comma, it’ll evaluate and
discard all except the last one.

01. #include <stdio.h>

02.

03. int main(void){

04.

05. int a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, x;
06. x = (a, b, c); //discards a and b, assign c to x
07. printf("x = %d", x);
08.

09. }

Output:-
x = 3

Comma behaves as a separator in the case of function calls and definitions,

variable declarations, enum declarations, and similar constructs.

01. #include <stdio.h>

02.

03. int main(void){

04.

05. int a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, x;
06. x = a, b, c;
07. /*act as separator a is assigned to x,
08. *assignment operator has higher priority than comma
operator*/
09.

10. printf("x = %d", x);

11.

12. }

Output:-
x = 1

POST-INCREMENT AND DECREMENT

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OPERATOR
The post increment/decrement operator behaves in a unique way. It has the
highest priority(hence, applied to the immediate variable), however, it’s done i.e.
reflected in the memory after the statement is completed.
See the example below,

01. #include <stdio.h>

02.

03. int main(void){

04. int x = 10, y =5;
05.

06. y = x++ + y;
07. printf("x = %d y = %d", x, y);
08.

09. /* post incr ++ is has highest priority, so x becomes 11

but
10. * it'll increase only after the statement is evaluated,
so it is not reflectred in the value of 'y'
11. * y = 10 + 5
12. * x = x + 1
13. * */
14. return 0;
15. }

Output:-
x = 11 y = 15

An example involving pointer:

01. #include<stdio.h>
02. int main(void){
03.

04. int x[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

05. int *p;
06. int i;
07. p = x; // p pointing to same first index of array
08.

09. printf("Before Pointer operation:");

10. for(i = 0; i < 5; i++)
11. printf("%d ", *(p+i));
12.

13. printf("\nAfter post increment based Pointer operation:");

14. printf("\n%d\n", *p++);
15. /*only pointer will be incremented not the value and value
printed will be of *p
16. * without incremented address

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17. * (*p) and then p++

18. * */
19.

20. for(i = 0; i < 4; i++)

21. printf("%d ", *(p+i));
22.

23.

24. printf("\nAfter pre increment based Pointer operation:");

25. printf("\n%d\n", *++p);
26. /* ++ and * both unary operator, same precedence.
Associavity is right to left
27. * content of p is read then increment done and then
dereferenced i.e. access the value
28. *++p and then *p
29. * */
30.

31. for(i = 0; i < 3; i++)

32. printf("%d ", *(p+i));
33.

34. return 0;
35. }

Output:-
Before Pointer operation:
1 2 3 4 5
After post increment based Pointer operation:
1
2 3 4 5
After pre increment based Pointer operation:
3
3 4 5
After pre increment based Pointer operation:
4
4 4 5

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