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I am not able to understand the above code . Why does it print 1?what does a=b do in above code?
 
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hi Rohan,

In this code first assignment is evaluated which is a=b means value of array b is assigned to a but it will not change the value a its just evaluating.

Second thing is ((a = b)[3])) which means it will look for 4th element in array of a(which contains the value of b after evaluation).
At last it will a[(a = b)[3]] print 1 becuase it will print the 0th element from a.

Just seprate the brackets and you can see but make sure assignment is not done else it will change the value or array a.
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Rohan Deshmkh wrote:
I am not able to understand the above code . Why does it print 1?what does a=b do in above code?


(a = b) just makes both the reference a and b point to the same array (Initially pointed by b)
So,
a[(a = b)[3]] is translated to a[b[3]], which will print 1

 
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ok thanks i got it.
a[(a=b)[3]] is equivalent to a[b[3]].
 
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Rohan Deshmkh wrote:ok thanks i got it.
a[(a=b)[3]] is equivalent to a[b[3]].


But what here matters is how?? You should try to understand it..
You should probably make a diagram on paper with 2 boxes for array and a & b reference pointing to them..
And then see the change as yo proceed in the code.
 
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yes i got it.Because of (a=b) ,a will point to the same array as that of b while evalulating (a=b)[3]
 
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Rohan Deshmkh wrote:yes i got it.Because of (a=b) ,a will point to the same array as that of b while evalulating (a=b)[3]


Also after the evaluation... try to print a[0] after this print statement..
 
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a[0] will print 2 because a now refers to b array and b[0] is 2.
 
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R. Jain wrote:
a[(a = b)[3]] is translated to a[b[3]], which will print 1



Why wouldn't it translate to b[b[3]]? Doesn't the assignment evaluate first?
 
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Bill Clar wrote: . . . Doesn't the assignment evaluate first?

Probably yes, because it is in ().
 
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