Bitwise Operators

Bitwise operators work much like logical operators do, except they compare values one bit at a time. The bitwise negation operator Not flips the bits in its operand from 1 to 0 and vice versa. The following shows an example:

      10110111 Not 01001000 

The And operator places a 1 in a result bit if both of the operands have a 1 in that position. The following shows the results of combining two binary values by using the bitwise And operator:

      10101010 And 00110110     00100010 

The bitwise Or operator places a 1 bit in the result if either of its operands has a 1 in the corresponding position. The following shows an example:

      10101010 Or  00110110     10111110 

The bitwise Xor operator places a 1 bit in the result if exactly one of its operands, but not both, has a 1 in the corresponding position. The following shows an example:

      10101010 Xor 00110110     10011100 

There are no bitwise equivalents for the AndAlso and OrElse operators.