Matlab Operator

Operator

• Arithmetic Operations
• Relational Operations
• Logical Operations
• String and Character Formatting
• Other
• Operator Precedence

Matlab Arithmetic Operations

Symbol	Role
+	Addition; Unary plus
-	Subtraction; Unary minus
.*	Element-wise multiplication
*	Matrix multiplication
./	Element-wise right division
/	Matrix right division
.\	Element-wise left division
\	Matrix left division (also known as backslash)
.^	Element-wise power
^	Matrix power
.'	Transpose
'	Complex conjugate transpose

Matlab Relational Operations

Symbol	Role
==	Equal to
~=	Not equal to
>	Greater than
>=	Greater than or equal to
<	Less than
<=	Less than or equal to

Matlab Logical Operations

Symbol	Role
&	Find logical AND
&&	Find logical AND (with short-circuiting)
~	Find logical NOT

String and Character Formatting

Symbol	Effect on Text
''	Single quotation mark
“	Cell delimiter
%{ %}	Block comments that extend beyond one line
!	Operating system command
?	Metaclass for MATLAB class
~	Argument placeholder to suppress specific input or output arguments
< &	Specify superclasses
.?	Specify fields of name-value structure when using function argument validation

Operator Precedence

1. ()
2. ~, sign +, -
3. ^, .^, transpose ', .'
4. .*, *, ./, /, .\, \
5. +, -
6. :
7. <, <=, ==, >=, >, ~=
8. &
9. |
10. &&
11. ||