Assignment Operators and Increment

Operator of C++
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By Anit Kumar

Assignment Operator:
The simple assignment operator (=) assigns the right side to left side.

C++ provides shorthand operators that have the capability of performing an operation and an
assignment at the same time.
For example:

int x=5;
x+=3; //It's mean x=x+3
x-=2; //It's mean x=x-2
x*=2; //It's mean x=x*2
x/=3; //It's mean x=x/3

Increment Operator:
The increment operator is used to increase an integer value by one, and is a commonly used C++
operator.

x++; //It's mean x=x+1

For example:

int x=10;
x++;
cout<<x;

Output:
 11

The increment operator has two forms, prefix and postfix.

++x; //prefix
x++; //postfix

Prefix: Prefix increments the value, and then proceeds with the expression.

Postfix: Postfix evaluate the expression and then performs the increment.

Prefix example:

x=4;
y=++x; //x is 4, y is 5

Decrement Operator:
The decrement operator (-) works in much the same way as the increment operator, but instead of
increasing the value, it decreases it by one.

--x; //prefix
x--; //postfix

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