Is there XNOR (Logical biconditional) operator in C#?
XOR = A or B, but Not A & B or neither (Can't be equal [!=])
XNOR is therefore the exact oppoiste, and can be easily represented by == or ===.
However, non-boolean cases present problems, like in this example:
a = 5
b = 1
if (a == b){
...
}
instead, use this:
a = 5
b = 1
if((a && b) || (!a && !b)){
...
}
or
if(!(a || b) && (a && b)){
...
}
the first example will return false (5 != 1), but the second will return true (a[value?] and b[value?]'s values return the same boolean, true (value = not 0/there is a value)
the alt example is just the reversed (a || b) && !(a && b) (XOR) gate
No, You need to use !(A^B)
Though I suppose you could use operator overloading to make your own XNOR.
XNOR is simply equality on booleans; use A == B
.
This is an easy thing to miss, since equality isn't commonly applied to booleans. And there are languages where it won't necessarily work. For example, in C, any non-zero scalar value is treated as true, so two "true" values can be unequal. But the question was tagged c#, which has, shall we say, well-behaved booleans.
Note also that this doesn't generalize to bitwise operations, where you want 0x1234 XNOR 0x5678 == 0xFFFFBBB3
(assuming 32 bits). For that, you need to build up from other operations, like ~(A^B)
. (Note: ~
, not !
.)