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& (bitwise AND)

bitwise and, and, &, ampersand

Availability

Flash Player 5. In Flash 4, the `&` operator was used for concatenating strings. In Flash 5, the `&` operator is a bitwise AND, and you must use the `add` and `+` operators to concatenate strings. Flash 4 files that use the `&` operator are automatically updated to use `add` when brought into the Flash 5 authoring environment.

Usage

    expression1 & expression2

Parameters

None.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Operator (bitwise); converts `expression1` and `expression2` to 32-bit unsigned integers, and performs a Boolean AND operation on each bit of the integer parameters. The result is a new 32-bit unsigned integer.