Operators in Visual Basic

An operator performs a function on one or more operands. For example, we add two variables with the "+" addition operator and store the result in a third variable with the "=" assignment operator. Visual Basic comes with many built-in operators that allow us to manipulate data.

Operators in VB.NET comes in different categories: (All in order of precedence)

Arithmetic Operators

Operator	To Do
^	Exponentiation
-	Negation (used to reverse the sign of the given value, exp -intValue)
*	Multiplication
/	Division
\	Integer Division (Division without remainder 5\2= 2 and not 2.5)
Mod	Modulus Arithmetic
+	Addition
-	Subtraction

String Operators

Concatenation operators join multiple strings into a single string. There are two concatenation operators, + and &.

Comparison Operators

A comparison operator compares operands and returns a logical value based on whether the comparison is true or not. Please find them below.

=	Equality Operator
<>	Different or Not equal
<	Less than
>	Greater Than
<=	Less Than or Equal
>=	Greater than or equal

Last but not least Logical Operators

The logical operators compare Boolean expressions and return a Boolean result. Below a list of them.

And	compare two Boolean expressions and return true if both of them are true else return false
Or	compare two Boolean expressions and return false if both of them are false else return true
Not	negate true to false and vice versa.

 

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