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

Question

I'm new to C# and could not find 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)?

Answer 1

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 c#, 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 !.)

Answer 2

XOR = A or B, but Not A & B or neither (Can't be equal [!=])
XNOR is therefore the exact oppoiste, and can be easily represented by == or ===.

However, non-boolean cases present problems, like in this example:

a = 5
b = 1

if (a == b){
...
}

instead, use this:

a = 5
b = 1

if((a && b) || (!a && !b)){
...
}

or

if(!(a || b) && (a && b)){
...
}

the first example will return false (5 != 1), but the second will return true (a[value?] and b[value?]'s values return the same boolean, true (value = not 0/there is a value)

the alt example is just the reversed (a || b) && !(a && b) (XOR) gate

Answer 3

No, You need to use !(A^B)

Though I suppose you could use operator overloading to make your own XNOR.

Answer 4

You can use === operator for XNOR. Just you need to convert a and b to bool.

if (!!a === !!b) {...}