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Question

The No. Of token is given expression

Printf("whats up %d",++&&***a);

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as per me, three *'s as one token ==> total 10 tokens in the given statement

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Shaik Masthan Can you please tell me the concept behind this ? Is it because of the greedy approach used for tokenization as mention in the link above ? 

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i didn't check that link, but as longest prefix matching ( greedy ) it is considered 3 *'s as one token.