OPERATORS IN JAVA

Java provides a rich set of operators to manipulate the variables. Java operators can be divided into following groups:

• Arithmetic operators
• Relation operators
• Logical operators
• Bitwise operators
• Assignment operators
• Misc operators

1. Arithmetic Operators:

Arithmetic operators are used in mathematical expression in the same way that are used in algebra.

Operator	Description
+	adds two operands
-	subtract second operands from first
*	multiply two operand
/	divide numerator by denominator
%	remainder of division
++	Increment operator increases integer value by one
--	Decrement operator decreases integer value by one

2.Relation Operators:

The following table shows all relation operators supported by Java.

Operator	Description
==	Check if two operand are equal
!=	Check if two operand are not equal.
>	Check if operand on the left is greater than operand on the right
<	Check operand on the left is smaller than right operand
>=	check left operand is greater than or equal to right operand
<=	Check if operand on left is smaller than or equal to right operand

3.Logical Operators:

The following table shows all relation operators supported by Java.

Operator	Description
==	Check if two operand are equal
!=	Check if two operand are not equal.
>	Check if operand on the left is greater than operand on the right
<	Check operand on the left is smaller than right operand
>=	check left operand is greater than or equal to right operand
<=	Check if operand on left is smaller than or equal to right operand

4.Bitwise Operators:

Java defines several bitwise operators that can be applied to the integer types long, int, short, char and byte

operator	description
&	Bitwise AND
|	Bitwise OR
^	Bitwise exclusive OR
<<	left shift
>>	right shift

5.Assignment Operators:

Assignment operator supported by Java are as follows

operator	description	example
=	assigns values from right side operands to left side operand	a=b
+=	adds right operand to the left operand and assign the result to left	a+=b is same as a=a+b
-=	subtracts right operand from the left operand and assign the result to left operand	a-=b is same as a=a-b
*=	mutiply left operand with the right operand and assign the result to left operand	a*=b is same as a=a*b
/=	divides left operand with the right operand and assign the result to left operand	a/=b is same as a=a/b
%=	calculate modulus using two operands and assign the result to left operand	a%=b is same as a=a%b

6.Misc Operators:

There are few other operator supported by java language.

1.Conditional Operator:It is also known as ternary operator and used to evaluate Boolean expression. It is written as exp1 ? exp2 : exp3

If exp1Condition is true? Then value exp2 : Otherwise value exp3

2.InstanceOf Operator:This operator is used for object reference variables. The operator checks whether the object is of particular type (class type or interface type).It is written as 

(Object of reference variable ) instanceOf (class/interface type)