<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Bitwise Operators</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Operators" HREF="language.operators.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Assignment Operators" HREF="language.operators.assignment.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Comparison Operators" HREF="language.operators.comparison.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.operators.assignment.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Cap. 10. Operators</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.operators.comparison.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.operators.bitwise" >Bitwise Operators</A ></H1 ><P > Bitwise operators allow you to turn specific bits within an integer on or off. If both the left- and right-hand parameters are strings, the bitwise operator will operate on the characters' ASCII values. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN2038" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">12 </font><font color="#007700">^ </font><font color="#0000BB">9</font><font color="#007700">; </font><font color="#FF8000">// Outputs '5'<br /><br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"12" </font><font color="#007700">^ </font><font color="#DD0000">"9"</font><font color="#007700">; </font><font color="#FF8000">// Outputs the Backspace character (ascii 8)<br /> // ('1' (ascii 49)) ^ ('9' (ascii 57)) = #8<br /><br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"hallo" </font><font color="#007700">^ </font><font color="#DD0000">"hello"</font><font color="#007700">; </font><font color="#FF8000">// Outputs the ascii values #0 #4 #0 #0 #0<br /> // 'a' ^ 'e' = #4<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><DIV CLASS="table" ><A NAME="AEN2040" ></A ><P ><B >Tabel 10-3. Bitwise Operators</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL><COL><COL><THEAD ><TR ><TH >Example</TH ><TH >Name</TH ><TH >Result</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD >$a & $b</TD ><TD >And</TD ><TD >Bits that are set in both $a and $b are set.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >$a | $b</TD ><TD >Or</TD ><TD >Bits that are set in either $a or $b are set.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >$a ^ $b</TD ><TD >Xor</TD ><TD > Bits that are set in $a or $b but not both are set. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >~ $a</TD ><TD >Not</TD ><TD > Bits that are set in $a are not set, and vice versa. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >$a << $b</TD ><TD >Shift left</TD ><TD > Shift the bits of $a $b steps to the left (each step means "multiply by two") </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >$a >> $b</TD ><TD >Shift right</TD ><TD > Shift the bits of $a $b steps to the right (each step means "divide by two") </TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.assignment.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.comparison.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Assignment Operators</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Comparison Operators</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >