What is the use of semicolon at the end of every statement?

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Computer languages are just like our normal communication languages. Hindi, eng etc. Enable to communicate us with each other. Similarly computer language helps us to communicate with computer. As a full stop tells us that the sentence is complete in the same way a semicolon tells the computer that the...
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Computer languages are just like our normal communication languages. Hindi, eng etc. Enable to communicate us with each other. Similarly computer language helps us to communicate with computer. As a full stop tells us that the sentence is complete in the same way a semicolon tells the computer that the instruction is complete and is to be executed. read less
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It's similar to our full stop.
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It is a instruction terminator.
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In languages such as C and Perl, semicolon is needed to end / terminate a statement (that is how the syntax is) unlike language such as Python.
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It merely acts as Full Stop for each statement in Programming Language. As . symbol have different meaning in programs, ; have been used to terminate each statements.
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The semicolon is a statement terminator in C to help the parser figure out where the statement ends since, by default, statements in C (and C++ and Java) can have any number of lines.
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to indicate the end of a statement for the compiler.
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Semicolon is used to terminate statement. It helps the parser to identify the end of statement because C can have any number of lines.
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Like English sentence we use full stop to understand that line is complete. c compiler also understand it by semicolon ,as instruction is completed and i have to read next one instruction. when we are not using semicolon after completion of statement so compiler give an error on next one line.
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Semicolon is used to indicate the termination or end point of any programming instruction or statement. Lets understand it with simple examples. Ex- We want to print two individual statements as mentioned below- Printf("This is the first line"); /* here, when compiler start executing this statement,...
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Semicolon is used to indicate the termination or end point of any programming instruction or statement. Lets understand it with simple examples. Ex- We want to print two individual statements as mentioned below- Printf("This is the first line"); /* here, when compiler start executing this statement, it's control will execute the print statement. Once it is printed, control reach to the semicolon, then semicolon indicates the this statement is over, then control jump to the next statement,*/ printf("\nThis is second line"); //and then second print statement will be executed. This is how, instruction is executed in C language. read less
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