C# Bitwise Operators

Bitwise operators are used to perform a bit-level operation on operands. They are used in testing, setting, or shifting the actual bits in a program.

You can see the truth table below.

p	q	p & q	p | q	p ^ q	~p
0	0	0	0	0	1
0	1	0	1	1	1
1	1	1	1	0	0
1	0	0	1	1	0

Below are the list of Bitwise operators:

Operators	Name of operators
&	Bitwise AND
|	Bitwise OR
^	Bitwise XOR
~	Bitwise complement
<<	Shift left
>>	Shift right

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Example of C# Bitwise Operators

using System;

namespace Operator
{
   class Bitwise
   {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         int a = 60;  //60 = 0011 1100
         int b = 13;  //13 = 0000 1101
         int result = 0;

         result = a &b;	//12 = 0000 1100
         Console.WriteLine("'&' Operator, Result: {0}", result);

         result = a | b;  //61 = 0011 1101
         Console.WriteLine("'|' Operator, Result: {0}", result);

         result = a ^ b;	//49 = 0011 0001
         Console.WriteLine("'^' Operator, Result: {0}", result);

         result = ~a;  //-61 = 1100 0011
         Console.WriteLine("'~' Operator, Result: {0}", result);

         result = a << 2;   //240 = 1111 0000
         Console.WriteLine("'<<' Operator, Result: {0}", result);

         result = a >> 2;   //15 = 0000 1111
         Console.WriteLine("'>>' Operator, Result: {0}", result);

      }
   }
}

Output:

'&' Operator, Result: 12
'|' Operator, Result: 61
'^' Operator, Result: 49
'~' Operator, Result: -61
'<<' Operator, Result: 240
'>>' Operator, Result: 15

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