Bitwise Operators | Swift Programming Language Tutorial

In Swift Programming we can perform operations of bits (binary 0s and 1s) using Bitwise operators.

Bitwise AND (&)


//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Bitwise AND (&) Operator in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//

var a = 3;  //binary 11
var b = 2;  //binary 10


println(a & b) // 11 AND 10 = 10 (decimal 2)

Output :

2
Program ended with exit code: 0

Bitwise OR (|)


//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Bitwise OR (|) Operator in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//

var a = 3;  //binary 11
var b = 2;  //binary 10


println(a | b) // 11 OR 10 = 11 (decimal 3)

Output :

3
Program ended with exit code: 0

Exclusive OR (^)


//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  Bitwise OR (|) Operator in Swift
//
//  Created by Code2care on 16/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//

var a = 3;  //binary 11
var b = 2;  //binary 10


println(a ^ b) // 11 OR 10 = 1 (decimal 1)

Output :

1
Program ended with exit code: 0