Operators in C Programming

Operators in C

Definition of Operator

An operator in C is a symbol that helps us to perform specific mathematical and logical computations on operands. In other words, we can say that an operator operates the operands.

Now let's see an example for more understanding.

int a=5, b=9, c;
c=a+b;

Here, + is an operator known as the addition operator and variables a, b are operands. The addition operator tells the compiler to add the value of both the operands a and b and store the result in variable c. So the value of c will be 14.

C has many built-in operator types, but the most important operator types are:

• Assignment Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators

We will discuss all the operator types in our upcoming lessons.