[Solved] Why does integer++ not increment integer value?

Question

Because the expression

num1++

evaluates to num1.

You may want to do:

++num1

which evaluates to num1 + 1.

Note however that both expressions increment num1 by one.

Evaluating num1 in the next statement evalutes to the incremented value.

In short

In C, why doesn’t num1++ increment in the printf()?

num1++ does increment num1 but it evaluates to num1 and that evaluation is what you are passing to printf().

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