Perl Programming/Keywords/xor

The xor keyword

xor is a logical exclusive OR operator that has a very low precedence, but is otherwise equivalent to ^. For logical reasons, it cannot short-circuit.

Syntax

  VALUE xor VALUE

Examples

The code

$a = 5; # 0101
$b = 8; # 1000

print $a xor $b . ", " . $a  ^ $b . "\n";	# Returns 5

prints only the first variable, as the first operator is valid:

5