Microsoft® JScript™ |= Operator | Language Reference Version 1

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##### Description

> Used to perform a bitwise OR on an expression.

##### Syntax

> result |= expression

> The |= operator syntax has these parts:

> Part | Description
> result | Any variable.
> expression | Any expression.

##### Remarks

> Using this operator is exactly the same as specifying:

> >     result = result | expression

> The |= operator looks at the binary representation of the values of result and expression and does a bitwise OR operation on them. The result of this operation behaves like this:

> >     0101    (result)
> >     1100    (expression)
> >     ----
> >     1101    (output)

> Any time either of the expressions has a 1 in a digit, the result has a 1 in that digit. Otherwise, the result has a 0 in that digit.

> For information on when a run-time error is generated by the |= operator, see the Operator Behavior table.

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