! : Java Glossary

2008-02-28 by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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!

Performs a logical negation on booleans. Every true becomes false and false becomes true;

The ! character is created by hitting shift-1. It can be hard to tell apart from Il1| in some fonts.

! true → false

! false → true

For bitwise negation operations on ints use the ~ operator instead.

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