Here is an example of the use of the & operator: : Bitwise Operators « Operators « SCJP






public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    short flags = 20; // 0000 0000 0001 0100 or 0x0014
    short mask = 4; // 0000 0000 0000 0100
    short rslt = (short) (flags & mask);

    System.out.println(rslt);
  }
}
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2.3.Bitwise Operators
2.3.1.Bitwise Operator Summary
2.3.2.Shift Operator Summary
2.3.3.The Bitwise Inversion Operator ~ performs bitwise inversion on integral types.
2.3.4.The Boolean Complement Operator ! inverts the value of a boolean expression.
2.3.5.The bitwise operator & provides bitwise AND
2.3.6.The bitwise operator ^ provides eXclusive-OR (XOR)
2.3.7.The bitwise operator | provides OR operations
2.3.8.Here is an example of the use of the & operator:
2.3.9.Java method to perform various bitwise operations on two integers and display the results