C# Logical XOR

Question

Guys,

Can you explain what this statement: Console.WriteLine("0x{0:x}", 0xf8 ^ 0x3f); does?

 

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Answer 1

Hi.

See this link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zkacc7k1.aspx
it says that

Binary ^ operators are predefined for the integral types and bool. For integral types, ^ computes the bitwise exclusive-OR of its operands. For bool operands, ^ computes the logical exclusive-or of its operands; that is, the result is true if and only if exactly one of its operands is true.

and explanation of example.

0xf8 is hex and in binary it is 11111000
0x3f is hex and in binary it is 00111111
and the result is
0xc7 is hex and in binary it is 11000111

Compare the value by bits.

Ex:

1 ^ 0 result is 1
1^1 result is 0

As you can see if only one of bits is true the result is true otherwise false.

Answer 2

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