Logical XOR operator in C++?

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RAC picture RAC · Oct 20, 2009 · Viewed 308.4k times · Source

Is there such a thing? It is the first time I encountered a practical need for it, but I don't see one listed in Stroustrup. I intend to write:

// Detect when exactly one of A,B is equal to five.
return (A==5) ^^ (B==5);

But there is no ^^ operator. Can I use the bitwise ^ here and get the right answer (regardless of machine representation of true and false)? I never mix & and &&, or | and ||, so I hesitate to do that with ^ and ^^.

I'd be more comfortable writing my own bool XOR(bool,bool) function instead.

Answer

Greg Hewgill picture Greg Hewgill · Oct 20, 2009

The != operator serves this purpose for bool values.

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