`bitor`

Bit-wise OR of integers.

Category: Language Fundamentals > Operators and Elementary Operations

Syntax

C = bitor(A, B)

Bit-wise OR of the binary representations of A and B.

Description

Each bit of the result is 1 when the corresponding bit is 1 in at least one operand. It is used to switch bits on or to combine flags stored in one integer: bitor(flags, 4) sets the third bit.

Unlike |, which treats operands as true or false, bitor works on the individual binary digits.

Input arguments

A, B: Arrays of nonnegative integers (doubles must be integer-valued, up to 2^53) or integer types of the same class. Sizes must be compatible.

Output arguments

C: Array with the combined bits, of the same class as the inputs.

Example

bitor(12, 10)
bitor(5, [1 2 8])
bitor(uint8(1), uint8(6))

Output

ans = 14
ans = 1×3

     5     7    13
ans = uint8
   7

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