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Overview of C Statements

C statements consist of tokens, expressions, and other statements. A statement that forms a component of another statement is called the "body" of the enclosing statement. Each statement type given by the following syntax is discussed in this section.

Syntax

Frequently the statement body is a "compound statement." A compound statement consists of other statements that can include keywords. The compound statement is delimited by braces ({ }). All other C statements end with a semicolon (;). The semicolon is a statement terminator.   

The expression statement contains a C expression that can contain the arithmetic or logical operators introduced in Expressions and Assignments. The null statement is an empty statement.

Any C statement can begin with an identifying label consisting of a name and a colon. Since only the goto statement recognizes statement labels, statement labels are discussed with goto. See The goto and Labeled Statements for more information.

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Concepts

Statements (C)