Symbols > & (bitwise AND)

& (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.