Bitwise Or Operator - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE Reference

| bitwise OR operator

expression1 | expression2
Converts
expression1
bit position where the corresponding bits of either
Floating-point numbers are converted to integers by discarding any digits after the decimal
point. The result is a new 32-bit integer.
Positive integers are converted to an unsigned hexadecimal value with a maximum value of
4294967295 or 0xFFFFFFFF; values larger than the maximum have their most significant
digits discarded when they are converted so the value is still 32-bit. Negative numbers are
converted to an unsigned hexadecimal value via the two's complement notation, with the
minimum being -2147483648 or 0x800000000; numbers less than the minimum are
converted to two's complement with greater precision and also have the most significant digits
discarded.
The return value is interpreted as a two's complement number with sign, so the return value
will be an integer in the range -2147483648 to 2147483647.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5
Operands
expression1 : Number
expression2 : Number
Returns
- The result of the bitwise operation.
Number
Example
The following is an example of a bitwise OR (|) operation:
// 15 decimal = 1111 binary
var x:Number = 15;
// 9 decimal = 1001 binary
var y:Number = 9;
// 1111 | 1001 = 1111
trace(x | y); // returns 15 decimal (1111 binary)
Don't confuse the single | (bitwise OR) with || (logical OR).
See also
& bitwise AND operator
,
operator ^= bitwise XOR assignment operator
,
operator ~ bitwise NOT operator
144 ActionScript language elements
and to 32-bit unsigned integers, and returns a 1 in each
expression2
- A number.
- A number.
,
&= bitwise AND assignment operator
or
expression1 expression2
,
,
|= bitwise OR assignment
are 1.
^ bitwise XOR