bitwise xor assignment
Summary
Performs a bitwise exclusive OR on a variable and an expression and assigns the result to the variable.
Syntax
result ^= expression
- result
- Any variable.
- expression
- Any expression.
Examples
See Remarks.
var x = 5;
x ^= 12;
// result: x = 9
Remarks
Using the ^= operator is exactly the same as specifying:
result = result ^ expression
The ^= operator looks at the binary representation of the values of two expressions and does a bitwise exclusive OR operation on them. The result of this operation behaves as follows:
0101 (result)
1100 (expression)
----
1001 (result)
When one, and only one, of the expressions has a 1 in a digit, the result has a 1 in that digit. Otherwise, the result has a 0 in that digit.
See also
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Attributions
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