XOR

Description

Performs a logical exclusion operation on two Boolean expressions, or a bitwise exclusion on two numeric expressions.

Syntax

result = expression1 XOR expression2

The XOR operator syntax has these parts:

Part	Description

result

Any numeric variable.

expression1

Any expression.

expression2

Any expression.

Returns

Number

Remarks

For Boolean comparisons, if one and only one of the expressions evaluates to True, result is True. Otherwise, result is False.

If expression1 is	And expression2 is	The result is
True	True	False
True	False	True
False	True	True
False	False	False

For numeric expressions, the Xor operator performs as a bitwise operator. A bitwise comparison of two expressions using exclusive-or logic to form the result, as shown in the following table:

If bit in expression1 is	And bit in expression2 is	The result is
1	1	0
1	0	1
0	1	1
0	0	0

Restrictions