jim wrote:
>
> hi perl friends,
>
> why does the expression: {print 4|3|3;} print '7'? it seems to add the first
> and the last number up.
> what does the operator '|' mean? isn't it suppose to mean "or" ( in w/c case
> it should print out '433') and not "+" ?
That's a bitwise or.
So 7 would be correct: 0100 or'd with 0011 or'd with 0011 = 0111 = 7
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