Bitwise OR Operator (|)

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Performs a bitwise OR on two expressions.

result = expression1 | expression2

Arguments

  • result
    Any variable.
  • expression1
    Any expression.
  • expression2
    Any expression.

Remarks

The | operator looks at the binary representation of the values of two expressions and does a bitwise OR operation on them. The result of this operation behaves as follows:

0101   (expression1)
1100   (expression2)
----
1101   (result)

Any time either of the expressions has a 1 in a digit, the result will have a 1 in that digit. Otherwise, the result will have a 0 in that digit.

Requirements

Version 1

See Also

|= Operator | Operator Precedence | Operator Summary