Go - Miscellaneous Operators



There are a few other important operators supported by Go Language including sizeof and ?:.

Operator Description Example
& Returns the address of a variable. &a; provides actual address of the variable.
* Pointer to a variable. *a; provides pointer to a variable.

Example

Try following example to understand all the miscellaneous operators available in Go programming language −

 package main import "fmt" func main() { var a int = 4 var b int32 var c float32 var ptr *int /* example of type operator */ fmt.Printf("Line 1 - Type of variable a = %T\n", a ); fmt.Printf("Line 2 - Type of variable b = %T\n", b ); fmt.Printf("Line 3 - Type of variable c= %T\n", c ); /* example of & and * operators */ ptr = &a	/* 'ptr' now contains the address of 'a'*/ fmt.Printf("value of a is %d\n", a); fmt.Printf("*ptr is %d.\n", *ptr); } 

When you compile and execute the above program it produces the following result −

 Line 1 - Type of variable a = int Line 2 - Type of variable b = int32 Line 3 - Type of variable c= float32 value of a is 4 *ptr is 4. 
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