Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference

BITWISE OPERATORS

Bitwise operators work much like logical operators do, except they compare values one bit at a time. The bitwise negation operator Not flips the bits in its operand from 1 to 0 and vice versa. The following shows an example:

    10110111
Not 01001000
 

The And operator places a 1 in a result bit if both of the operands have a 1 in that position. The following shows the results of combining two binary values by using the bitwise And operator:

    10101010
And 00110110
    00100010
 

The bitwise Or operator places a 1 bit in the result if either of its operands has a 1 in the corresponding position. The following shows an example:

    10101010
Or  00110110
    10111110
 

The bitwise Xor operator places a 1 bit in the result if exactly one of its operands, but not both, has a 1 in the corresponding position. The following shows an example:

    10101010
Xor 00110110
    10011100
 

There are no bitwise equivalents for the AndAlso and OrElse operators.