What does the |= operator do in Java?

Question

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Answer 1

|= is a bitwise-OR-assignment operator. It takes the current value of the LHS, bitwise-ors the RHS, and assigns the value back to the LHS (in a similar fashion to += does with addition).

For example:

foo = 32;   // 32 =      0b00100000
bar = 9;    //  9 =      0b00001001
baz = 10;   // 10 =      0b00001010
foo |= bar; // 32 | 9  = 0b00101001 = 41
            // now foo = 41
foo |= baz; // 41 | 10 = 0b00101011 = 43
            // now foo = 43