JAVA

Prof. Navrati Saxena

TA: Rochak Sachan

Operators

Operator

Arithmetic Bitwise Relational Logical

1. Arithmetic Operators

are used in mathematical expressions.

S.N.

0 Operator Result S.N. Operator Result

1. + Addition 6. += Addition

assignment

2. – Subtraction 7. –= Subtraction

assignment

3. * Multiplication 8. *= Multiplication

assignment

4. / Division 9. /= Division

assignment

5. % Modulus 10. %= Modulus

assignment

11. – – Decrement

The operands of the arithmetic operators must be of a numeric

type.

Can not be used on boolean types, but you can use them on

char types, since the char type in Java is a subset of int.

Arithmetic Operators (Cont…)

Basic Arithmetic Operators - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

// Demonstrates the basic arithmetic operators.

class BasicMath

{ public static void main(String args[])

{ int a = 1 + 1;

int b = a * 3;

int c = b / 4;

int d = c - a;

int e = -d;

System.out.println("a = " + a);

System.out.println("b = " + b);

System.out.println("c = " + c);

System.out.println("d = " + d);

System.out.println("e = " + e);

}

}

Modulus Operator (%)

- returns the remainder of a division operation.

- can be applied to floating-point types as well as integer

types.

(This differs from C/C++, in which the % can only be

applied to integer types.)

Modulus Operator (%)

// Demonstrates the % operator.

class Modulus

{

public static void main(String args[])

{

int x = 42;

double y = 42.25;

System.out.println("x mod 10 = " + x % 10);

System.out.println("y mod 10 = " + y % 10);

}

}

Arithmetic Assignment Operators

// Demonstrates several assignment operators.

class OpEquals

{

public static void main(String args[])

{

int a = 1;

int b = 2;

int c = 3;

a += 5;

b *= 4;

c += a * b;

c %= 6;

System.out.println("a = " + a);

System.out.println("b = " + b);

System.out.println("c = " + c);

}

}

Increment and Decrement

// Demonstrates ++.

class IncDec

{

public static void main(String args[])

{

int a = 1;

int b = 2;

int c;

int d;

c = ++b;

d = a++;

c++;

System.out.println("a = " + a);

System.out.println("b = " + b);

System.out.println("c = " + c);

System.out.println("d = " + d);

}

}

Java defines several bitwise operators which can be

applied to the integer types, long, int, short, char, and byte.

2. Bitwise Operators

S.N. Operator Result S.N. Operator Result

1. ~ Bitwise unary

NOT 8. &=

Bitwise AND

assignment

2. & Bitwise AND 9. |= Bitwise OR

assignment

3. | Bitwise OR 10. ^= Bitwise exclusive

OR assignment

4. ^ Bitwise exclusive

OR 11. >>=

Shift right

assignment

5. >> Shift right 12. >>>= Shift right zero

fill assignment

6. >>> Shift right zero

fill 13. <<=

Shift left

assignment

7. << Shift left

Bitwise Operators

Bitwise Logical Operators

(&, |, ^, and ~.)

- The following table shows the outcome of each operation.

A B A | B A & B A ^ B ~A

0 0 0 0 0 1

1 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 1 1 1 0 0

The Left Shift (<<)

shifts all of the bits in a value to the left a specified number

of times.

It has the general form:

value << num

num specifies the number of positions to left-shift the value in

value.

For each shift left, the high-order bit is shifted out (and lost),

and a

zero is brought in on the right.

Each left shift has the effect of doubling the original value.

The Right Shift (>>)

shifts all of the bits in a value to the right a specified number

of times.

It has the general form:

value >> num

num specifies the number of positions to right-shift the value in

value.

When shifting right, the top (leftmost) bits exposed by the

right shift are filled in with the previous contents of the top bit.

Each time you shift a value to the right, it divides that value

by two—and discards any remainder.

3. Relational Operators

- The relational operators determine the relationship that one

operand has to the other.

S.N. Operator Result S.N. Operator Result

1. == Equal to 4. < Less than

2. != Not equal to 5. >= Greater than or equal to

3. > Greater than 6. <= Less than or

equal to

The outcome of these operations is a boolean value.

Most frequently used in the expressions that control

the if statement and the various loop statements.

Example:

int a = 4;

int b = 1;

boolean c = a < b;

In this case, the result of a<b (which is false) is stored

in c.

3. Relational Operators

4. Boolean Logical Operators

operate only on boolean operands.

All of the binary logical operators combine two

boolean values to form a resultant boolean value.

4. Boolean Logical Operators

S.N

. Operator Result

S.N

. Operator Result

1. & Logical AND 7. &= AND

assignment

2. | Logical OR 8. |= OR

assignment

3. ^ Logical XOR

(exclusive OR) 9. ^=

XOR

assignment

4. || Short-circuit OR 10. == Equal to

5. && Short-circuit AND 11. != Not equal to

6. ! Logical unary NOT 12. ?: Ternary if-then-

else

4. Boolean Logical Operators

A B A | B A & B A ^ B !A

False False False False False True

True False True False True False

False True True False True True

True True True True False False

The following table shows the effect of each logical operation:

Short-Circuit Logical Operators (||, &&)

If you use the || and && forms, rather than the | and & forms

of these operators, Java will not bother to evaluate the right-

hand operand when the outcome of the expression can be

determined by the left operand alone.

Example:

if (denom != 0 && num / denom > 10)

*there is no risk of causing a run-time exception when denom is zero.

The ? Operator

(three-way) operator that can replace certain types of

if-then-else statements.

The ? has this general form:

expression1 ? expression2 : expression3

- If expression1 is true, then expression2 is evaluated;

otherwise, expression3 is evaluated.

- Both expression2 and expression3 are required to

. return the same type, which can’t be void.

This part of the presentation shows the order of precedence

for Java operators, from highest to lowest.

Parentheses are used to alter the precedence of an operation.

Parentheses raise the precedence of the operations

that are inside them.

Operator Precedence

Operator Precedence Highest

Lowest

( ) [ ] .

++ – – ~ !

* / %

+ –

>> >>> <<

> >= < <=

== !=

&

^

|

&&

||

?:

= op=

Table. The Precedence of the Java Operators

References

• Herbert Schildt; "Java The Complete

Reference, Seventh Edition (Osborne

Complete Reference Series)", McGraw-

Hill, 2007

• http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/Catal

ogJava.htm

• http://www.freejavaguide.com/corejava.ht

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