Xor

xor performs an exclusive logical 'or' between two boolean values.

Syntax

 EXP_NUM1 xor EXP_NUM2EXP_NUM1 ? EXP_NUM2

Examples

CODECODE CODE # Test : does I=1 and J<>2, or I<>1 and J=2 ?If I = 1 xor J = 2CONDITION_RESULT="the condition is true"ElseCONDITION_RESULT="the condition is false"Endif

Description and comments

xor returns a boolean result that is 0 or 1, 0 being the value false and 1 to value true.
The result depends on the value of the following decision table:

Value of EXP_NUM1Value of EXP_NUM2Value of (EXP_NUM1 or EXP_NUM2)
false (0)false (0)0 (false)
false (0)true (not equal to 0)1 (true)
true (not equal to 0)false (0)1 (true)
true (not equal to 0)true (not equal to 0)0 (false)

Comments:

or can be abbreviated as ?.

Associated errors

ErrorDescription
10Arguments are not numeric.

See also

and, or, not.