Unexpected result of condition statement

[Arunansu]

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int a=10,b=10,c=10;
if(a==b==c)
printf("hi...");
else
printf("hello...");
getch();
return 0;
}
 

this is my code..why am i getting hello...as the output?

please help..

thank you.
Ayan Dasgupta

[whodgson]

You have omitted the format specifiers....i think

[donbock]

a==b==c will be accomplished as either (a==b)==c or a==(b==c). I don't know which, and I don't care. You shouldn't care either. It is much less work to use parentheses than it is to accurately remember such arcana.

A boolean expression is either true or false. In C, true is represented by the integer value 1 and false is represented by the integer value 0.

a==b==c
(a==b)==c       // or it might be a==(b==c)
(10==10)==10    // replace variables with their values
1==10           // because parenthesized expression is true
0               // because final expression is false

If your intent is to print "hi" if (a==b and a==c) then that's what you have to say in your code:

if ((a==b) && (a==c))

Aside to whodgson: those string arguments to printf are by definition the format strings. They just don't happen to contain any conversion specifiers.

[whodgson]

yes donbock i now realize that what I said above was not relevant to the problem. It just looked weird compared to what my books show.