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Yehuda Shiran October 13, 1999
Bitwise Operators
Tips: October 1999

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Bitwise operators enable you to work on individual bits of the byte operands. Regardless of the operand size, only its LSB (Least Significant Byte) is used. The result is always a byte. Any bitwise operator in JavaScript looks like this:

operand1 operator operand2

JavaScript supports the following bitwise operators:

SyntaxNameType
&Bitwise ANDbinary
|Bitwise ORbinary
^Bitwise XOR (exclusive OR)binary
~Bitwise NOTunary
<<Left shiftbinary
>>Right shiftbinary
>>>Zero-fill right shiftbinary


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