User Guide

Using operators to manipulate values in expressions 33

Numeric operators

Numeric operators add, subtract, multiply, divide, and perform other arithmetic operations.

The most common use of the increment operator is

i++ instead of the more verbose i = i+1.

You can use the increment operator before or after an operand. In the following example,

age is

incremented first and then tested against the number 30:

if (++age >= 30)

Multiply Left to right

Divide Left to right

Modulo Left to right

Unary plus Right to left

Unary minus Right to left

Bitwise left shift Left to right

Bitwise right shift Left to right

>>>

Bitwise right shift (unsigned) Left to right

instanceof

Instance of (finds the class of which the object is an

instance)

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Left to right

Less than Left to right

Less than or equal to Left to right

Greater than Left to right

Greater than or equal to Left to right

Equal Left to right

Not equal Left to right

Bitwise AND Left to right

Bitwise XOR Left to right

Bitwise OR Left to right

Logical AND Left to right

Logical OR Left to right

Conditional Right to left

Assignment Right to left

*=, /=, %=, +=, -

=, &=, |=, ^=,

<<=, >>=, >>>=

Compound assignment Right to left

Comma Left to right

Lowest precedence

Operator Description Associativity