What is Operators: Definition and 1000 Discussions

This is a list of operators in the C and C++ programming languages. All the operators listed exist in C++; the fourth column "Included in C", states whether an operator is also present in C. Note that C does not support operator overloading.
When not overloaded, for the operators &&, ||, and , (the comma operator), there is a sequence point after the evaluation of the first operand.
C++ also contains the type conversion operators const_cast, static_cast, dynamic_cast, and reinterpret_cast. The formatting of these operators means that their precedence level is unimportant.
Most of the operators available in C and C++ are also available in other C-family languages such as C#, D, Java, Perl, and PHP with the same precedence, associativity, and semantics.

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  2. Jianphys17

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  3. D

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  4. fresh_42

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  5. Jianphys17

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  8. D

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  9. Jamison Lahman

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  10. binbagsss

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  12. S

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  14. B

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  15. D

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  16. D

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  18. S

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  19. L

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  20. L

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  21. T

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  22. Luca_Mantani

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  31. F

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  32. N

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  39. J

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  40. D

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  41. K

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  42. S

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  43. J

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  44. H

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  47. C

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  48. Mayan Fung

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  49. T

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  50. S

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