I still dont get the difference between x++ and ++x

Question

If possible, include some examples for both

Answer 1

x++ increases x's value by one. Often used like this

for (int x, x>=10, x++)

Every time the for loop is run, x's value is increased by one. If x started at 0 it will run 10 times.

++x would do the same thing in the for loop above, however in the following code, "++x" and "x++" do different things

int x=5
int y=5
y=++x

Outputs y=6 x=6

int x=5
int y=5
y=x++

Outputs y=5 x=6

This is because "y=++x" adds 1 to x and then assigns it to y, where "y=x++" assigns y to x and then increases x's value by 1

Answer 2

ooh now it makes sense
thank you very much