📅  最后修改于: 2023-12-03 15:13:49.658000             🧑  作者: Mango
In C#, the square symbol is used as a bitwise operator called "bitwise AND" represented by the ampersand symbol (&
).
The bitwise AND operator compares the binary representation of two integers and returns a new integer that has a 1
bit only if both its operands have a 1
bit in the same position.
int a = 5; // binary representation: 0000 0101
int b = 3; // binary representation: 0000 0011
int c = a & b; // binary representation: 0000 0001
The output of c
will be 1
because the only position where both a
and b
have a 1
bit is the last one.
One practical usage of bitwise AND is to check the state of a set of flags that are stored as integers. For example:
const int FLAG_A = 1; // binary representation: 0000 0001
const int FLAG_B = 2; // binary representation: 0000 0010
const int FLAG_C = 4; // binary representation: 0000 0100
int flags = 3; // binary representation: 0000 0011
if ((flags & FLAG_A) != 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Flag A is set");
}
if ((flags & FLAG_B) != 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Flag B is set");
}
if ((flags & FLAG_C) != 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Flag C is set");
}
In the example above, the flags
variable is assigned the binary value 0000 0011
which means that both FLAG_A
and FLAG_B
are set.
Then, the bitwise AND operator is used to check the state of each flag. For example, (flags & FLAG_A)
returns 1
because the first bit of flags
is set (corresponding to FLAG_A
), while (flags & FLAG_C)
returns 0
because the third bit of flags
is not set.
The square symbol (&
) in C# is a bitwise operator that can be used to perform logical operations on individual bits of integers. It is commonly used to manipulate and check the state of bit fields in binary representations of data.