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Assignment Operators in C

What is Assignment Operator in C Programming?

An assignment operator is the operator that assigns the value from its right side to its left side or we can say an assignment operator is used to assign a value to a variable. The most common assignment operator is =. For example, num = 8; Here, it assigning a value of '8' to the variable 'num'.


Some other examples of assignment operators

OPERATOR EXAMPLE SAME AS
=

x=y

x=y

+=

x+=y

x=x+y
-=

x-=y

x=x-y
/=

x/=y

x=x/y
*=

x*=y

x=x*y
%=

x%=y

x=x%y



Code for Assignment Operator

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int num=10,res;
res=num;
printf("res = %d\n",res);
res+=num;
printf("res = %d\n",res);
res-=num;
printf("res = %d\n",res);
res*=num;
printf("res = %d\n",res);
res/=num;
printf("res = %d\n",res);
res%=num;
printf("res = %d\n",res);
}//end of main

Output:

res = 10
res = 20
res = 10
res = 100
res = 10
res = 0