BBitwise operators

Bitwise operators are used in programming for operating on the individual bits of binary values.

For example, one of the binary operators is the NOT operator. It performs a unary negation on each bit within a binary value (effectively changing all zeroes to ones and ones to zeroes). For example, NOT 010 would return 101. The syntax for using bitwise operators is different among the various programming languages, so programmers will need to refer to the documentation for the language being used.

Additional Information

• Bitwise Operators in Perl
• Bitwise Operators in PHP
• Bitwise Operators in C and C++

Also see: Boolean, Programming definitions