Increment and Decrement Operators in C

In C, there are two increment (++) and  decrement (--) operators to change the value of an operand (constant or variable) by 1. Increment operator (++) increases the value by 1 whereas decrement operator ( --) decreases the value by 1. These two operators are unary operators, meaning they only operate on a single operand.

C code with increment and decrement operators:

// increment and decrement operator
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{

     int i = 5;
     printf("++i = %d \n", ++i);
     printf("i++ = %d \n", i++);
     printf("--i = %d \n", --i);
     printf("i-- = %d \n", i--);
     printf("i = %d \n", i);

}

Output:

++i = 6
i++ = 6
--i = 6
i-- = 6
i = 5

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