Bitwise XOR

Otherwise known as the exclusive OR operator, written as ^, bitwise XOR compares two inputs and returns 1 when the two inputs are different (see Figure 7.7).

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Figure 7.7 Performing a bitwise XOR on two bytes (one on top and one on bottom).

Notice in this example that only the comparisons where input 1 and input 2 are different result in a 1. Matching 1s (1 and 1) returns 0 and matching 0s (0 and 0) returns 0.

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