Operators

The operators available in the pan data manipulation language are very similar to those in the C language. The following table describes each operation.

+	unary	number	preserves sign of argument
+	binary	number	addition
+	binary	string	string concatenation
-	unary	number	changes sign of argument
-	binary	number	subtraction
*	binary	number	multiplication
/	binary	number	division
%	binary	long	modulus
~	unary	long	bit-wise not
&	binary	long	bit-wise and
|	binary	long	bit-wise or
caret	binary	long	bit-wise exclusive or
!	unary	boolean	logical not
&&	binary	boolean	logical and
| |	binary	boolean	logical or
==	binary	number	equal
==	binary	string	lexical equal
!=	binary	number	not equal
!=	binary	string	lexical not equal
>	binary	number	greater-than
>	binary	string	lexical greater-than
>=	binary	number	greater-than-or-equal
>=	binary	string	lexical greater-than-or-equal
<	binary	number	less-than
<	binary	string	lexical less-than
<=	binary	number	less-than-or-equal
<=	binary	string	lexical less-than-or-equal