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Bitwise Operators

Also See: Bitwise Operators precedence and associativity.

Bitwise Operators

Operator	Description
&	Bitwise AND.
|	Bitwise OR
^	Bitwise XOR.
~	Bitwise NOT
<<	Shift left.
>>	Shift right.
>>>	Shift right, zero fill.

Example- Bitwise Operator

This example uses the Bitwise Operator Shift Left to shift the value 2 to the left four bits (binary 10 to binary 1000), resulting in 8:

var test=2;
test=test<<2
alert(test) //alerts 8

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