Increment and Decrement Operators
In this lesson, you will learn about ++, -- operators and what happens when you use them as the prefix or postfix operators.
You may come across two unusual-looking operators that may be used as a shorthand for incrementing and decrementing variables. The ++
and --
operators add 1
and subtract 1
, respectively, from their operands. For example in the following code snippet, we increment the int
variable a
and we decrement the int
variable b
:
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