NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

Arithmetic Operators and Expressions
Expressions and Operators
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Arithmetic Operators
and Expressions
This subsection describes arithmetic operators and arithmetic expressions.
Arithmetic Operators Arithmetic operators specify an arithmetic operation on one or more terms in an
expression. Table 10-2 lists arithmetic operators in order of precedence. Operators
with the same level of precedence are grouped together.
Table 10-2. Arithmetic Operators in Order of Precedence
Operator Operation
+ Unary plus
- Unary minus
** Exponentiation
* Multiplication
/ Division
// Integer division
% Remainder
+ Addition
- Subtraction
Unary Plus Operator (+)
The unary plus operator forces the numeric interpretation of the term to which it is
adjacent. The term must represent a valid number. The unary plus operator (+) does
not change the numeric value of the term.
The general syntax for using the unary plus operator is:
+ term
term
specifies a term in an expression. Terms are defined at the beginning of this
section under “The Composition of Expressions.”
Some examples are listed in the following table:
What You Type Result
&a = 1 + +1 &a has the value 2.
say +99 Symbol 99 is displayed.