Home / JavaScript / JavaScript increment and decrement operators – Operator Precedence
Unlike other operators, the increment and decrement operators act on only one operand. They are hence called Unary operators.
They can be used either before or after a variable as in:
a++; b--; OR ++a; --b;
When these operators are used as prefixes, JavaScript first adds one to the variable and then returns the value. When used as suffixes, the value is first returned and then the variable is incremented. Let’s know more about this:
var a = 5; b = a++; (b contains the initial value of a, which is 5. a, on the other hand is now equal to 6) var a = 5; c = ++a; (In this case, JavaScript first adds 1 to a, changing its value to 6. This value is returned to c. Thus, c = 6)
Read the section again, if you’ve not understood this concept.
Take a look at the following code… what do you think will be the value of variable res?
var res = 25 + 100 * 4;
There are two ways to look at this
Let us find out how does JavaScript solve the problem
JavaScript has this inbuilt thing called Operator Precedence. It’s a list of operators specifying the order in which they will be executed if two or more are found in the same expression.
In our case, the multiplication operator has a higher precedence than the addition operator. Hence, JavaScript will first multiply 100 with 4 and add 25 resulting in 425.
NO!
JavaScript expressions (such as the one above) can be made more clear by adding parenthesis. Thus, depending on our need, we can write the statement as:
res = 25 + (100 * 4); res = 425 OR res = (25 + 100) * 4; res = 500
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