Comparison Operators

Incrementing and Decrementing operators are Unary operators.

Incrementing Operators

Increment operator increases the value of its operand by 1.

The operand(variable) must be a integer value.

We have two types of Increment operator,

1. Pre-increment operator

++myVar (Pre-increment : Increments myVar by 1, then returns $var)




2. Post-increment operator

myVar++ (Post-increment : Returns myVar, then increments $var by one)

Example : Pre-increment operator

//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Incrementing and Decrementing Operators in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//

var i = 10


//Increments a by 1, then returns i
println(++i)

Output :

11
Program ended with exit code: 0

Example : Post-increment operator

//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Incrementing and Decrementing Operators in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//

var i = 10


//Returns i, then increments i by one
println(i++) // no increment 
println(i++) //  increment by 1 

Output :

10
11
Program ended with exit code: 0

Similarly we also have two types of Decremental Operator's,

1. Pre-decrement Operator

++myVar (Pre-decrement : Decrements myVar by 1, then returns myVar)

2. Post-decrement Operator

myVar++ (Post-decrement : Returns myVar, then decrements myVar by one)

Example : Pre-decrement operator

//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Incrementing and Decrementing Operators in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//

var i = 10


//Decrements i by 1, then returns i
println(--i)

Output :

9
Program ended with exit code: 0

Example : Post-decrement operator

//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Incrementing and Decrementing Operators in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//


//Returns i, then decrements i by one
println(i--)

println(i)

Output :

10
9
Program ended with exit code: 0

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