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Various types of operators

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Objectives

On completion of this period, you would be able to know:

• Various operators in Java

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Recap

• What is an array

• What is one dimensional array

• What is two dimensional array

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Operators

• An operator performs an operation on data items

(also known as operands)

• Java operators can be classified as follows

• Arithmetic operators

• Relational operators

• Logical operators

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• Assignment operators• Increment/Decrement operators• Conditional operators• Bit-wise operators• Special operators

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Arithmetic Operators

• Java provides all the basic arithmetic operators

like + , - , * , / , %

• These can operate on any built in numeric data

types like any other languages

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• We can not use these operators on boolean data

type

eg. : These are used as

a+b , a-b , a*b , a/b , a% b

• Here a, b are variables or constants known as

operands

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Relational Operators

• These operators are used for compare two

quantities

• Java supports the following relational operators

• < , <= , > , >= , = = , !=

• The value of the relational expression is either true

or false

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• The syntax for relational operator is

Expression1 <relational operator> Expession2

• Here, Expression1 and Expression2 are arithmetic

expressions

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• When arithmetic expressions are used , it must be evaluated first and then results compared.

eg. : a<b

a<=b

a>b

a>=b

a= = b

a!=b

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Relational Operators

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Logical Operators

• Java has three logical operators

&& - Logical AND

| | - Logical OR

! - Logical NOT

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• An expression which combines two or more relational expressions

• It is called as logical expression or compound expression

eg. : a >b && c <d• The logical expression given above is true only if

both conditions are true• If either of them are false the expression is false

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Assignment Operator

• These are used to assign the value of an

expression to a variable

• The assignment operator is ‘= ‘

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• These operators are used for shorthand assignment in the following form

V op = value;

• Here, V is variable ,op is operator.

eg. : a+ = 9;

Assignment Operator

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• The above form is equivalent to

V = V op value;

eg. : a+ = 1 means a= a+1

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Assignment Operator

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• Advantages of shorthand assignment operators are

• What appears on the left hand side need not be

repeated and therefore it becomes easier

• The statement is more easier to read

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Assignment Operator

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Increment/Decrement Operators

• Java has two useful operators

• These are increment(++) and decrement(--)

operators.

• The operator ++ adds one to the operand and the

operator -- subtracts one

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• Both are unary operators and these are in different

forms.

eg. : ++m or m++ ,this is equivalent to m+1

--m or m-- ,this is equivalent to m-1

Increment/Decrement Operators

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• The difference occurs only the operator is a part of another expression

eg. : m = 9, k =++ m ; • In this case the value of k would be 10

eg. : m = 9, k = m++ ;• In this case the value of k would be 9 and m

would be 10

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Conditional Operator

• The character pair ‘?:’ is a ternary operator

available in Java

• This operator is used to construct conditional

expressions of the form

Expression1 ? Expression2 : Expression3 ;

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• Here, ?: works as follows

• Expression1 is evaluated first if it is true

• Then the Expression2 is evaluated and becomes

the value of the conditional expression

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Conditional Operator

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• If Expression1 is false, Expression3 is evaluated

• And its value becomes the value of the conditional

expression

eg. : x = (a > b ) ? a : b;

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Conditional Operator

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Bitwise Operators

• Java has a distinction of supporting special

operators known as ‘Bitwise Operators’

• These manipulate data at values of bit level

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• These operators are used for testing the bits or

shifting them to the right or left

• Bitwise operators may not be applied to float or

double

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• The bitwise operators are

& Bitwise AND

| Bitwise OR

^ Bitwise exclusive OR

~ Ones complement

<< Shift left

>> Shift right

>>> Shift right with zero fill

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Bitwise Operators

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Special Operators

• Java supports some special operators

• Such as ‘ instanceOf ‘ operator

• And ‘Dot’ operator or member selection operators

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instanceOf Operator

• The instanceOf operator is an object reference operator

• It returns true if the object on the left hand side is an instance of the class given on the right hand side

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• This operator allows us to determine the object

belongs to a particular class or not

eg. : s instanceof Student;

• The above statement is true if the object belongs

to the class Student

• Otherwise it is false

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instanceOf Operator

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Dot Operator

• The Dot operator is used to access the instance of variables and methods of a class

eg. : a.dispaly();

• It is also used to access classes and sub packages

from packages

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Summary

• Different types of Operators

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Quiz

1.An Operator Operates______

a) Variables

b) Operators

c) Operands

d) All the Above

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Frequently Asked Questions

• List any Three Logical operator

• List any Four Bitwise Operators

• Explain various operators available in Java

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