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data. The data items that the operator acts upon are
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c The operator that acts upon single operand is
called unary operator and the operator that acts upon
two operands is called binary operator and the
operator that acts upon three operands is called
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c Relational Operators
c Logical Operators
c Assignment Operators
c Increments and Decrement Operators
c Conditional Operator
c Bitwise Operators
c Special Operators
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c There are six relational operators in C and they
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c The relational operators when applied produce an
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logical values.
c The following table gives the relational operators and
their meaning.
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compound expression since they at least need two
relational expressions
c There are three logical operators.
c Op1 and op2 are result of relational expression.
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c The increment (++) and decrement (--) are unary operators.
c The operand must be a variable and cannot be constant or
expression.
c The ++ operator increments the operand by one and the
decrement operator decrements the operators by 1.
c The increment and decrement operator can precede or succeed
the operand.
c If the operator precedes the operand then operand is
incremented or decremented before it is used.
c If the operator succeeds the operand then the operand is
incremented or decremented after it is used.
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c Conditional operator is a ternary operator.
c It is used to build simple conditional expressions.

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assigned to the variable.
c Expression 1 is a relational or logical expression
c Expression 2 can be arithmetic, relational or logical expression.
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