C Program to Check Whether a Number is Even or Odd

To understand this example, you should have the knowledge of the following C programming topics:


An even number is an integer that is exactly divisible by 2. For example: 0, 8, -24

An odd number is an integer that is not exactly divisible by 2. For example: 1, 7, -11, 15


Program to Check Even or Odd

Output

Enter an integer: -7
-7 is odd.

In the program, the integer entered by the user is stored in the variable num.

Then, whether num is perfectly divisible by 2 or not is checked using the modulus % operator.

If the number is perfectly divisible by 2, test expression number%2 == 0 evaluates to 1 (true). This means the number is even.

However, if the test expression evaluates to 0 (false), the number is odd.


Program to Check Odd or Even Using the Ternary Operator

Output

Enter an integer: 33
33 is odd.

In the above program, we have used the ternary operator ?: instead of the if...else statement.