Operators

What Is Operator?

Generally, you too an operator because you operate most of the things in your day-to-day life. For example you may play music, you may drive a car and many more.

Operator In C

• In C, an operator is a symbol(+, -, *, /) which operates on a certain data type to perform mathematical, logical, relational operations.
• An operator indicates an operation to be performed on data results into a value.
• An operand is a data item (variable or constant) on which operators can perform the operations.
• An expression is a combination of variables, constants and operators.
• In C, every expression results(evaluates) into a value of certain data type.

Example

Assume variable a = 2 and b = 4, these values substituted to the expression, a + (5 * b) = 22. The expression can be defined as follow, a and b are variables, 5 is a constant and 22 is a result value.

Operators Classifications

C provides 4 different kind of operators to perform different kinds of operations on operands (data items).