What is operator in java

Question

What is ^ operator called what does it do? if anybody can help?

Answer 1

^ operator is called bitwise XOR operator.

Binary XOR Operator copies the bit if it is set in one operand but not both.

For example:

a = 0011 1100

b = 0000 1101

(A ^ B) will give 49 which is 0011 0001

Answer 2

The ^ operator in Java

^ in Java is the exclusive-or ("xor") operator.

Let's take 5^6 as example:

(decimal)    (binary)
     5     =  101
     6     =  110
------------------ xor
     3     =  011

This the truth table for bitwise (JLS 15.22.1) and logical (JLS 15.22.2) xor:

^ | 0 1      ^ | F T
--+-----     --+-----
0 | 0 1      F | F T
1 | 1 0      T | T F

More simply, you can also think of xor as "this or that, but not both!".

Answer 3

It's bitwise XOR, Java does not have an exponentiation operator, you would have to use Math.pow() instead.