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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">XOR Operator</title>
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<bookmark_value>XOR operator (logical)</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph id="par_id3159414" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Performs a logical Exclusive-Or combination of two expressions.</paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id3153381">Syntax:</h2>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150400" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Result = Expression1 XOR Expression2</paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id3153968">Parameters:</h2>
<paragraph id="par_id3150448" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Result:</emph> Any numeric variable that contains the result of the combination.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3125864" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Expression1, Expression2:</emph> Any numeric expressions that you want to combine.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150439" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">A logical Exclusive-Or conjunction of two Boolean expressions returns the value True only if both expressions are different from each other.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153770" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">A bitwise Exclusive-Or conjunction returns a bit if the corresponding bit is set in only one of the two expressions.</paragraph>
<h2 id="hd_id3153366">Example:</h2>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341575648" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleXOR</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341574416" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim vA As Variant, vB As Variant, vC As Variant, vD As Variant</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341573136" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim vOut As Variant</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341571904" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> vA = 10: vB = 8: vC = 6: vD = Null</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3156442" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> vOut = vA > vB XOR vB > vC ' returns 0</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153191" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> vOut = vB > vA XOR vB > vC ' returns -1</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153144" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> vOut = vA > vB XOR vB > vD ' returns -1</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154944" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> vOut = (vB > vD XOR vB > vA) ' returns 0</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3148455" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> vOut = vB XOR vA ' returns 2</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341561664" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Sub</paragraph>
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