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Increment and Decrement Operators

In C, the increment (++) and decrement (--) operators increase or decrease the value of a variable by 1. As unary operators, they are used on a single operand. When used as a prefix (++var or --var), the operator will increment/decrement the value first before returning it. When used as a postfix (var++ or var--), the original value is returned first before incrementing/decrementing. For example, in the code shown, c++ displays the original value of 2 and then increments c to 3, while ++c first increments c to 4 and then displays the new value.

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Increment and Decrement Operators

In C, the increment (++) and decrement (--) operators increase or decrease the value of a variable by 1. As unary operators, they are used on a single operand. When used as a prefix (++var or --var), the operator will increment/decrement the value first before returning it. When used as a postfix (var++ or var--), the original value is returned first before incrementing/decrementing. For example, in the code shown, c++ displays the original value of 2 and then increments c to 3, while ++c first increments c to 4 and then displays the new value.

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Increment and decrement operators

In C, ++ and -- are called increment and decrement operators respectively. Both of these operators are unary
operators, i.e, used on single operand. ++ adds 1 to operand and -- subtracts 1 to operand respectively. For
example:
Let a=5 and b=10
a++;

//a becomes 6

a--;

//a becomes 5

++a;

//a becomes 6

--a;

//a becomes 5

NOTE : ++a !=

a+1, but ++a ==

a=a+1;

Difference between ++ and -- operator as postfix and prefix


When i++ is used as prefix(like: ++var ), ++var will increment the value of var and then return it but, if ++ is
used as postfix(like: var++), operator will return the value of operand first and then only increment it. This can
be demonstrated by an example:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
int c=2,d=2;
printf("%d\n",c++); //this statement displays 2 then, only c incremented by 1 to 3.
printf("%d",++c); //this statement increments 1 to c then, only c is displayed.
return 0;
}

Output
2
4

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