Expression Versus Statement

Question

I\'m asking with regards to c#, but I assume its the same in most other languages.

Does anyone have a good definition of expressions and statements

Answer 1

Statement,

A statement is a procedural building-block from which all C# programs are constructed. A statement can declare a local variable or constant, call a method, create an object, or assign a value to a variable, property, or field.

A series of statements surrounded by curly braces form a block of code. A method body is one example of a code block.

bool IsPositive(int number)
{
    if (number > 0)
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

Statements in C# often contain expressions. An expression in C# is a fragment of code containing a literal value, a simple name, or an operator and its operands.

Expression,

An expression is a fragment of code that can be evaluated to a single value, object, method, or namespace. The two simplest types of expressions are literals and simple names. A literal is a constant value that has no name.

int i = 5;
string s = "Hello World";

Both i and s are simple names identifying local variables. When those variables are used in an expression, the value of the variable is retrieved and used for the expression.