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12.1 Operator precedence and associativity

When an expression contains multiple operators, the precedence of the operators controls the order in which the individual operators are evaluated. For example, the expression x + y * z is evaluated as x + (y * z) because the * operator has higher precedence than the + operator. The following table gives all operators in order of precedence from highest to lowest:

Category Operators
Primary All non-operator expressions
Exponentiation ^
Unary negation +, -
Multiplicative *, /
Integer division \
Modulus Mod
Additive +, -
Bitwise NOT BitNot
Bitwise AND BitAnd
Bitwise OR BitOr
Bitwise XOR BitXor
Concatenation &
Relational =, <>, <, >, <=, >=, TypeOf…Is, Is, Like
Conditional NOT Not
Conditional AND And
Conditional OR Or
Conditional XOR Xor

When an operand occurs between two operators with the same precedence, the associativity of the operators controls the order in which the operations are performed. All binary operators are left-associative, meaning that operations are performed from left to right. Precedence and associativity can be controlled using parenthetical expressions.