Bitwise AND Operator (&)

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Performs a bitwise AND on two expressions.

expression1 & expression2

Arguments

  • expression1
    Any numeric expression.

  • expression2
    Any numeric expression.

Remarks

The & operator coerces the arguments to matching data types. Then the & operator looks at the binary representation of the values of two expressions and does a bitwise AND operation on them. The data types of the arguments determine the data type returned by this operator.

The result of this operation behaves as follows:

0101   (expression1)
1100   (expression2)
----
0100   (result)

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

Requirements

Version 1

See Also

Reference

Bitwise AND Assignment Operator (&=)

Concepts

Operator Precedence

Operator Summary

Coercion By Bitwise Operators