What is Bitwise Operator?
This operator is symbolized by “ | ”. First, let’s see how this operator performs its work.
- The first step is to convert the operands to their binary representation.
- Then, this operator is applied to each binary number and calculates the result.
- At last, the result is again converted to its integer form.
Java provides several bitwise operators:
- Bitwise AND (&)
- Bitwise OR (|)
- Bitwise XOR (^)
- Bitwise NOT (~)
- Right Shift (>>)
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