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Operator

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: An operator is used to change the content of a variable. There are a number of different types of operator.
  • Assignment Operators eg: = += -= *= /= %= <<= >>= >>>= &= |= ^=
  • Concatenation Operator eg: +
  • Arithmetic Operators eg: + - * / % ++ --
  • Comparison Operators eg: == != > < >= <=
  • Logical Operators eg: && || !
  • Bitwise Operators eg: & | ^ - << >> >>>

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