Miscellaneous Operators in C# Programming Language
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There are few other important operators including sizeof and ? : supported by C#.
Operator | Description | Example |
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sizeof() | Returns the size of a data type. | sizeof(int), returns 4. |
typeof() | Returns the type of a class. | typeof(StreamReader); |
& | Returns the address of an variable. | &a; returns actual address of the variable. |
* | Pointer to a variable. | *a; creates pointer named 'a' to a variable. |
? : | Conditional Expression | If Condition is true ? Then value X : Otherwise value Y |
is | Determines whether an object is of a certain type. | If( Ford is Car) // checks if Ford is an object of the Car class. |
as | Cast without raising an exception if the cast fails. | Object obj = new StringReader("Hello");
StringReader r = obj as StringReader; |
Example
using System; namespace OperatorsAppl { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { /* example of sizeof operator */ Console.WriteLine("The size of int is {0}", sizeof(int)); Console.WriteLine("The size of short is {0}", sizeof(short)); Console.WriteLine("The size of double is {0}", sizeof(double)); /* example of ternary operator */ int a, b; a = 10; b = (a == 1) ? 20 : 30; Console.WriteLine("Value of b is {0}", b); b = (a == 10) ? 20 : 30; Console.WriteLine("Value of b is {0}", b); Console.ReadLine(); } } }
When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −
The size of int is 4 The size of short is 2 The size of double is 8 Value of b is 30 Value of b is 20