What is conditional operator and it’s syntax in C

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What is conditional operator and it’s syntax in C

Conditional Operator is a powerful Operator which can be used to implement if-then-else type of logic. This operator is also known as ternary operator and it takes three arguments in the following form.

Conditional_Expression ? Expression_One : Expression_Two;

Ternary Operator will execute Expression_One if Conditional_Expression is true, otherwise it execute Expression_Two.
Ternary Operator is similar to if-else decision block as it evaluates only one code block depending on the result of Conditional_Expression.
For Example

int X = 25;
int Y = (X > 20 ? 1 : 2);

As X > 20, So after above statement Y’s value becomes 1.

What is assignment operators in C

Assignment Operators of C is used to assign a value to a variable. “=” is called simple arithmetic operator of C, it assigns values from right side operands(R value) to left side operand (L value). The general syntax of assignment operator is:

variable_name = expression;

For Example
value = 1234;
value = 4/2;

What is the bitwise operator in C

C is a middle level language, it support many operations which can be performed in assembly language like operations on bits. Bitwise operators performs bit-by-bit operations on operands. There are six bitwise operators supported by C programming language.

  • Bitwise OR Operator(|)
  • Bitwise AND Operator(&)
  • NOT Operator(One’s Complement)(~)
  • Bitwise Exclusive OR Operator(^)
  • Right Shift Operator(>>)
  • Left Shift Operator(<<)

Bitwise Operators can only be applied on char and integer operands. We cannot use bitwise operators with float, double, long double, void and other user define complex data types.