Bitwise AND Operator (&)
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
See Also
Reference
Bitwise AND Assignment Operator (&=)