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Is there an XNOR (Logical biconditional) operator in C#?

I could not find an XNOR operator to provide this truth table:

a  b    a XNOR b
----------------
T  T       T
T  F       F
F  T       F
F  F       T

Is there a specific operator for this? Or I need to use !(A^B)?

Solution

  • 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 , 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 !.)