What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
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What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
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Re: What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
String a=null; if (a!=null && a.length()>10) {...}
A single ampersand here would lead to a NullPointerException
Last edited by helloworld922; February 11th, 2010 at 11:23 AM.
Re: What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
&& is a shortcut and it means that if the condition on the left is false it wont even bother looking at the condition on the right, if you use a single amp instead it will force it to evaluate both conditions even though it already knows that the whole condition will fail.
And in the above post from Sharad you will see that if you replace the double amps with a single amp it will first check to see if a is not null which will evaluate to false since a is null and then it will check the right side anyways because of the single amp and when you do a.length() it blows up.
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Re: What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
In addition, && only operates on booleans, while & does a full boolean and operation on any primitive data type.
ex:
int a = 0x10; // a = b00010000 int b = 0x08; // b = b00001000 System.out.println(a & b); // prints out 0x18, or b00011000, or 24d
Re: What can go wrong if you replace && with & in the following code:
Have a look at Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics) for more information on Bitwise operators.
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