~ and !

[Anjana Ravindran]

Can u please differentiate these two operators? I got bit confused

Regards,
Anjana

[praveen Shangunathan]

~ is a logical operator. Bitwise complement. flips all the bits ( 1s' to 0s' and 0s' to 1s')

! is a conditional operator. ( !a - returns true if a is false )

[Anjana Ravindran]

do u say that ~ applies to numeric and boolean types and ! applies to boolean types? (same as other bitwise and logical operators)

[marc weber]

Bitwise inversion ( ~ ) is a unary operator (meaning that it acts on a single operand) that simply flips the bits of a primitive numeric value. However, it can not be applied to booleans.

To "flip" a boolean value, use the unary "not" ( ! ), which can be applied only to booleans.

Bitwise operators "and" ( & ), "or" ( | ), and "exclusive or" ( ^ ) are binary operators (meaning that 2 operands are involved) that can be applied to either primitive numerics or booleans.

The short-circuiting versions of "and" and "or" ( && and || ) can be used only with booleans.
[ December 06, 2005: Message edited by: marc weber ]

[Sasikanth Malladi]

To be more specific, the ~ operator can ONLY be applied to integers (byte, short, char, int and long).
Sashi

[marc weber]

Originally posted by Sasikanth Malladi:
To be more specific, the ~ operator can ONLY be applied to integers (byte, short, char, int and long).
Sashi

Good point. I should have said "primitive integral values."